Everybody is Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks. Welcome into the shop.

Everybody is Bill Courtney with an army of normal folks. Welcome into the shop.

Hey Alex, Hey Bill, how are you good? I've been with you all morning? Whats been with you all morning?

Hey Alex, Hey Bill, how are you good? I've been with you all morning? Whats been with you all morning?

I know? Then your morning should be fabulous. It is you're looking for anything?

I know? Then your morning should be fabulous. It is you're looking for anything?

Oh?

Oh?

Thank you? I appreciate that. Are you looking anything in particular today? Are you just hanging around? I'm just in the shop.

Thank you? I appreciate that. Are you looking anything in particular today? Are you just hanging around? I'm just in the shop.

I'm still looking for a wife. But I don't think I want to say that every I don't think I want to say that every week. It could get weird for people.

I'm still looking for a wife. But I don't think I want to say that every I don't think I want to say that every week. It could get weird for people.

Okay, here's a p s A for any of you single ladies out there. There's an available, attractive, hard working, kind, Catholic gentleman with beautiful children looking for a long, meaningful relationship. So there, how's that.

Okay, here's a p s A for any of you single ladies out there. There's an available, attractive, hard working, kind, Catholic gentleman with beautiful children looking for a long, meaningful relationship. So there, how's that.

That's good? Thanks Bill?

That's good? Thanks Bill?

Anytime? Uh, Today we're gonna oh, ironically, we're going to talk about positivity today. Oh yeah, yeah, in the shop today we're going to talk about positivity. And here's why. Jim Victor from Boise, Idaho sent this The importance of positivity in a world where it seems to be difficult to find. Sometimes I manage a team where negativity can dominate a couple of members, and I see that negativity out of a couple of members the impact it can make on everybody they work with. I never want to be I never want anyone to be fake in regard to how they feel. But we also have much to be thankful for and be positive about, and that can be motivating and inspiring. And thank you Jim. When I read that, I thought about today and the visit us and the negativity and the fear that comes from it, and I thought it'd be a good idea to discuss some shop talk and draw some inspiration from eighteen ninety five. So we'll get to that right after these brief messages from our general sponsors, everybody shop Talk number forty five, welcome back. The importance of positivity. Jim Victor from Boise, Idaho reached out and said, enjoy your podcast. It's inspiring. Had a couple ideas for shop talk that I was wondering if you're considered, and the first one was this one I read before the break about the importance of positivity, and you're right, you don't. Nobody likes the fake positive people that always come in with sunshine shooting out their rear end and act like there's no problems in the world. I mean, that will great on your nerves. So, you know, positivity needs to be refreshingly honest. And we all have problems. So it's hard to stay positive all the time and nobody can. But it's easy to fall into this vacuum of negativity at work or in your family. And I don't know, it feels like in our political world right now, with all the divisiveness and all of the categories we separate ourselves in, it leads to more and more negativity. And oh, I don't know. I guess there is an uncomfortability around so much of the unknown about what tariffs are going to do, what the border's going to be, and all this other stuff. And I think uncertainty leads to negative and makes it really hard to be positive. And so I think Jim's questions or point is really good. Could we talk about the importance of positivity in a world that it seems difficult to find sometimes? Well, I've been we by the way. We got this email months ago, and I keep reading in it and I kept thinking, you know, how do I talk about it? It's a great point, but you know, where does the where does the inspiration to be positive come from? How do we put aside negative thoughts and be positive? Nobody wants to be the debbie down or negative Nancy that brings everybody down around them, because they're always they're always in the doldrums. But there's a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling written around eighteen ninety as a tribute to a British politician, Star Jamison, and I just wanted to read it. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and not be tired of waiting or being led about. Don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to the hating, and yet don't look too good nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think and not make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stop and build them up with worn out tools.

Anytime? Uh, Today we're gonna oh, ironically, we're going to talk about positivity today. Oh yeah, yeah, in the shop today we're going to talk about positivity. And here's why. Jim Victor from Boise, Idaho sent this The importance of positivity in a world where it seems to be difficult to find. Sometimes I manage a team where negativity can dominate a couple of members, and I see that negativity out of a couple of members the impact it can make on everybody they work with. I never want to be I never want anyone to be fake in regard to how they feel. But we also have much to be thankful for and be positive about, and that can be motivating and inspiring. And thank you Jim. When I read that, I thought about today and the visit us and the negativity and the fear that comes from it, and I thought it'd be a good idea to discuss some shop talk and draw some inspiration from eighteen ninety five. So we'll get to that right after these brief messages from our general sponsors, everybody shop Talk number forty five, welcome back. The importance of positivity. Jim Victor from Boise, Idaho reached out and said, enjoy your podcast. It's inspiring. Had a couple ideas for shop talk that I was wondering if you're considered, and the first one was this one I read before the break about the importance of positivity, and you're right, you don't. Nobody likes the fake positive people that always come in with sunshine shooting out their rear end and act like there's no problems in the world. I mean, that will great on your nerves. So, you know, positivity needs to be refreshingly honest. And we all have problems. So it's hard to stay positive all the time and nobody can. But it's easy to fall into this vacuum of negativity at work or in your family. And I don't know, it feels like in our political world right now, with all the divisiveness and all of the categories we separate ourselves in, it leads to more and more negativity. And oh, I don't know. I guess there is an uncomfortability around so much of the unknown about what tariffs are going to do, what the border's going to be, and all this other stuff. And I think uncertainty leads to negative and makes it really hard to be positive. And so I think Jim's questions or point is really good. Could we talk about the importance of positivity in a world that it seems difficult to find sometimes? Well, I've been we by the way. We got this email months ago, and I keep reading in it and I kept thinking, you know, how do I talk about it? It's a great point, but you know, where does the where does the inspiration to be positive come from? How do we put aside negative thoughts and be positive? Nobody wants to be the debbie down or negative Nancy that brings everybody down around them, because they're always they're always in the doldrums. But there's a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling written around eighteen ninety as a tribute to a British politician, Star Jamison, and I just wanted to read it. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and not be tired of waiting or being led about. Don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to the hating, and yet don't look too good nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think and not make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stop and build them up with worn out tools.

Stoop what stoop?

Stoop what stoop?

Stoop, oh, and stoop and build them up with worn out tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there's nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seven worth of sixty seconds worth of distance, run yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man. My son Rudyard Kipling.

Stoop, oh, and stoop and build them up with worn out tools. If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there's nothing in you except the will which says to them, hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings, nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seven worth of sixty seconds worth of distance, run yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more, you'll be a man. My son Rudyard Kipling.

Wrote that the title of the poem is if I was about to say.

Wrote that the title of the poem is if I was about to say.

Rudyard Kipling wrote that poem around eighteen ninety five and it's called if and it's a tribute to a British politician. It's basically, if you can do these things, then you will be inspirational and you will be successful. But it's also basically saying, this is what this politician was able to do, which is keep your head when everybody's losing theirs. You can be trustworthy even when people doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting. You don't lie even though you deal in law. You don't hate, and you don't give way to hating. It's all about being positive. It's all about meeting the challenge of the day, always relying on the fundamentals of your character and your value and your word, and not being overcome by the challenges of the day, not being overcome by the negativity of the challenge of the day, and staying positive. And the way you stay positive is that you have this basis, this foundation of character, honesty, integrity, hard work and grace. And if you have the courage to set aside the times that are negative, and set aside the impulses that are negative and remain positive based on those fundamentals, then you can change the world. So that's what Rodgrier Kipling has to say about staying positive in his poem If, written around eighteen ninety five. So back to Jim Victor the importance of positivity in a world where it seems to be difficult to find. Sometimes a manager team where negativity can dominate from a couple members, when I see an impact it can make on the whole team. I never want anybody to be fake in regard to how they feel, but also have much to be thankful for and be positive about that can be motivating and inspiring. What do you say about that, Bill, Here's what I say. If, in the words of Rodger Kipling, if we can always remember that the sun's going to come up tomorrow, there's air in our lungs, If we can understand that there are all kinds of challenges in the day. But if we can always remember that we have to build our own personal foundation on character, commitment, integrity, honesty and grace. And if we can forgive those failed, fallen folks that surround us, that make mistakes and not get negative admired in a bunch of tit for tat. But if we can show grace, if we can show hard work, if we can show a foundation of commitment and character and integrity, and if we want to rise above it in a positive way to counteract in advectivity that can surround us. We can inspire those who are mired in negative situations maybe to follow that kind of lead. It's a big if. The question for shop talk is in the words of Rotord Kipling in eighteen ninety five, yours is the earth and everything that's in it. And which is more, you'll be a man, my son. Now there's men and women. This is eighteen ninety five conversation. But the point is, if you're willing to do the things that you need to do to stay positive in terms of your foundation and your character and your word and your grace, then yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and this will make you positive in the face of negativity and therefore inspire those around you to also be positive and make great change in the world. So, mister Victor, thanks for bringing that to us. It's interesting that we were able to weave an eighteen ninety five pullem into this, but honestly, I've read this email over and over again and didn't know how to respond to a Alex showed me this poem and then I thought, well, that's how we do it.

Rudyard Kipling wrote that poem around eighteen ninety five and it's called if and it's a tribute to a British politician. It's basically, if you can do these things, then you will be inspirational and you will be successful. But it's also basically saying, this is what this politician was able to do, which is keep your head when everybody's losing theirs. You can be trustworthy even when people doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting. You don't lie even though you deal in law. You don't hate, and you don't give way to hating. It's all about being positive. It's all about meeting the challenge of the day, always relying on the fundamentals of your character and your value and your word, and not being overcome by the challenges of the day, not being overcome by the negativity of the challenge of the day, and staying positive. And the way you stay positive is that you have this basis, this foundation of character, honesty, integrity, hard work and grace. And if you have the courage to set aside the times that are negative, and set aside the impulses that are negative and remain positive based on those fundamentals, then you can change the world. So that's what Rodgrier Kipling has to say about staying positive in his poem If, written around eighteen ninety five. So back to Jim Victor the importance of positivity in a world where it seems to be difficult to find. Sometimes a manager team where negativity can dominate from a couple members, when I see an impact it can make on the whole team. I never want anybody to be fake in regard to how they feel, but also have much to be thankful for and be positive about that can be motivating and inspiring. What do you say about that, Bill, Here's what I say. If, in the words of Rodger Kipling, if we can always remember that the sun's going to come up tomorrow, there's air in our lungs, If we can understand that there are all kinds of challenges in the day. But if we can always remember that we have to build our own personal foundation on character, commitment, integrity, honesty and grace. And if we can forgive those failed, fallen folks that surround us, that make mistakes and not get negative admired in a bunch of tit for tat. But if we can show grace, if we can show hard work, if we can show a foundation of commitment and character and integrity, and if we want to rise above it in a positive way to counteract in advectivity that can surround us. We can inspire those who are mired in negative situations maybe to follow that kind of lead. It's a big if. The question for shop talk is in the words of Rotord Kipling in eighteen ninety five, yours is the earth and everything that's in it. And which is more, you'll be a man, my son. Now there's men and women. This is eighteen ninety five conversation. But the point is, if you're willing to do the things that you need to do to stay positive in terms of your foundation and your character and your word and your grace, then yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and this will make you positive in the face of negativity and therefore inspire those around you to also be positive and make great change in the world. So, mister Victor, thanks for bringing that to us. It's interesting that we were able to weave an eighteen ninety five pullem into this, but honestly, I've read this email over and over again and didn't know how to respond to a Alex showed me this poem and then I thought, well, that's how we do it.

Let me give a shout out for the poem. Do it? And you where the poem came from? Where? So you've met them my friends in Oxford, Blake and Sierrah Cannon. Yeah, and they're are people. No, he's a real estate agent.

Let me give a shout out for the poem. Do it? And you where the poem came from? Where? So you've met them my friends in Oxford, Blake and Sierrah Cannon. Yeah, and they're are people. No, he's a real estate agent.

Real state age, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Real state age, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah yeah, the king of real estate in Oxford, the king of real estate. Their son Noah. And I'm a shamed of forgetting his exact age, but he's probably ten to twelve years old. Somewhere in there. He just remembered that entire poem. You're kidding, you know, I'm super impressed by him. I mean you he can.

Yeah yeah, the king of real estate in Oxford, the king of real estate. Their son Noah. And I'm a shamed of forgetting his exact age, but he's probably ten to twelve years old. Somewhere in there. He just remembered that entire poem. You're kidding, you know, I'm super impressed by him. I mean you he can.

Recite that Yeah, how long that is?

Recite that Yeah, how long that is?

That's unbelievable.

That's unbelievable.

Yeah, and so what he recited to you one day or something.

Yeah, and so what he recited to you one day or something.

Mom was just telling me, Sarah, just.

Mom was just telling me, Sarah, just.

So then you looked the poem up.

So then you looked the poem up.

Yeah, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I know that poem and it's beautiful. It's like, man, this would be a great shop talk.

Yeah, and I'm like, oh, yeah, I know that poem and it's beautiful. It's like, man, this would be a great shop talk.

That's fantastic and it fits great with positivity because the truth is, if you can do all of these things in this poem written by Rudlill Kipling. Then the negative won't consume you, and you can inspire positivity in our world. It's a beautiful thing.

That's fantastic and it fits great with positivity because the truth is, if you can do all of these things in this poem written by Rudlill Kipling. Then the negative won't consume you, and you can inspire positivity in our world. It's a beautiful thing.

Yeah, and a good challenge for all of our kids. I kind of want my kids to remember this, and it's a good challenge for all of us. Yeah. I feel like I'm my brain too old. I can't remember stuff that long anymore.

Yeah, and a good challenge for all of our kids. I kind of want my kids to remember this, and it's a good challenge for all of us. Yeah. I feel like I'm my brain too old. I can't remember stuff that long anymore.

So Chap top number forty five guys, brought to you by Jim Victor, a listener from Boise, Idaho. If you're willing to do the things you need to do, you can overcome negativity. You can walk your life with positivity inspire others to do so. And if you do that, we got a chance for an army and normal folks staying positive and making amazing change in our world. Jim, thanks for reaching out. I hope you are pleased with our response to your email, And for those of you listening, guys, email me anytime at Bill at normal Folks dot us. And if you send me an email, even if it takes me months to respond, I will. And if your ideas or something I think we can add something to I may not come to it immediately, but Eventually something will will smart and we'll try to bring it up on shop Talk. What else do you want these people to do?

So Chap top number forty five guys, brought to you by Jim Victor, a listener from Boise, Idaho. If you're willing to do the things you need to do, you can overcome negativity. You can walk your life with positivity inspire others to do so. And if you do that, we got a chance for an army and normal folks staying positive and making amazing change in our world. Jim, thanks for reaching out. I hope you are pleased with our response to your email, And for those of you listening, guys, email me anytime at Bill at normal Folks dot us. And if you send me an email, even if it takes me months to respond, I will. And if your ideas or something I think we can add something to I may not come to it immediately, but Eventually something will will smart and we'll try to bring it up on shop Talk. What else do you want these people to do?

Alex, go to normal folks dot us. Yep, Join the Army, become a premium member, subscribe to the podcast. Ready to review it? Yeah, ser on social Yeah, all the things that will help us grow in an army of normal folks.

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Yeah. That's chop Talk number forty five. We'll see you next week.

Yeah. That's chop Talk number forty five. We'll see you next week.