On this special New Years pop up edition of The Corelink Solution Podcast with James Rosseau Sr., we discuss the difference between a resolution and resolve, three things you need to incorporate in your daily life to help you follow your passion, succeed in your purpose and prioritize your time and the art of gratitude. 

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What’s up y’all? You’re tuned in to The Corelink Solution Show with your truly James Rosseau, a k a Trig, right here on Holy Culture Radio Sirius xm, channel 1 54. I also just started the live stream on Instagram. What’s up, DJ D-Lite International Show. What’s good, my bro. Good to see you.

Happy New Year. And, Like I said at the top of the show, man, just starting this conversation with y’all about how we get the new year started. I’ve seen a lot of posts, I’ve seen a lot of good advice. I wanna weigh in and I want y’all to weigh in too. And so please bring it, you can definitely do it in the live stream.

Or if you wanna hit me up on the hotlines, 1, 8, 3, 3 radio, H C, please feel free to do that. And, I just wanna throw a couple thoughts out there, man, and get this conversation started because I think it’s so key. aloha to you too, child of God. Chavez. Good to see you, my bro. A couple things. You know, one of the things about, the way God works, when I think about the way God works is consistency.

God is so consistent. And when I think about New Year’s and New Year’s resolutions and such, one of the things that came to mind for me and my prayer was instead of thinking New Year’s and resolutions, thinking be resolved, being resolved in the purpose that God has called you to. Being resolved in that purpose, being resolved in being consistent, having a higher level of accountability and continuing to move forward.

Salute to you as well. Official prodigal son, my bro. Good to see you, bro. Yeah. Being, being resolved in your passion, your purpose, and your priorities and everything God has called you to in this year as opposed to a new resolution, and it made me think about. Again, God’s consistency in what he’s doing.

And the first tip I want to throw out in that sense is gratitude. Because one of the things that happens towards the end of the year and launching into the new year sometimes is this sense of focus on focusing on what is missing versus what is already there. There’s so many things that are already there that God is doing that is are happening in your life that are already well.

And somehow as the end of the year comes and the new year begins, this vacuum happens. We’re almost like those things disappear and we start looking at, man, there’s so much there seems to be missing. , right? And so how do we focus on, you know, what’s already there? And I, this scripture come, came to me, Isaiah 43 19.

See, I am doing a new thing. I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. See, God is already doing miraculous work. He’s already doing new things. Gratitude helps us remember what is working well. It helps us remember to be thankful.

We’re here, we’re alive. Hopefully we’re healthy. Hopefully we’re still putting food on the table. We’re still putting clothes on our backs despite everything that’s going on in the economy, challenges in the job market, all the things that we can name that happen in 2022. There’s so many things to be excited about, to be thankful for, to be raising our hands to right.

And somehow towards the end of the year and coming into the new year, we can easily shift focus to man this void. So I wanna say tip number one, man, focus on some gratitude. Don’t let this void happen. You know what I’m saying? Focus on that gratitude of, yes Lord, I am so thankful for what you’re doing.

I’m so appreciative and I want to continue to be consistent in my walk with you. And I wanna be, I don’t wanna make a new resolution. I want to be resolve. And galvanize my consistency and personal accountability to keep walking with you and everything you’ve called me to do. That’s the first thing I would throw out.

That’s the first thing I would throw out. So I’m gonna jump into some music because that’s what we do as a part. being Holy Culture Radio. But man, y’all throw out some tips to me and what y’all are thinking too. I want to hear what’s happening for y’all and I’ve gotta be respectful of Instagram and our platforms and not play music on these platforms.

So, as I jump into some music, y’all, I’m gonna jump off and come back to this live. Very shortly. All right, y’all keep it locked. Holy Culture radio Sirius xm, channel 1, 5 4. What’s up y’all? It’s James Rosseau, Sr. A k a Trig, right here. Holy Culture. Radio Sirius, xm, channel 1, 5 4. And if you’re just tuning in, we’re having this conversation about how to get the year started, right?

Y’all, how do we get this year started, right? Because we’ve been hearing so many things. And again, like I said in the first segment, a lot of times when you get going into the new year, one of the things that can creep in is. I call it this vacuum of what is already going well. It’s almost like you forget it.

You forget it, and so one of the first things I said, my very first tip is gratitude. Have some gratitude about the things that are already going well in your life. Again, I’m just gonna reiterate it, that God says he’s already doing a wonderful thing. I read a piece of Isaiah. I am already doing a wonderful work.

Isaiah 43 19. See, I am doing a new thing now it springs up. Do not, do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland, so let’s give praise to what God is already doing. So here’s my second tip, and you know, let me tell you a brief story. So, when the pandemic first started, I was still doing some business consulting.

We hadn’t launched Sirius XM yet, so I still was doing some consulting and some businesses, some executives. And one of the things I found that people were doing was almost in a similar way forgetting some of the core elements of their business. I was coaching different, uh, C-suite executives, some CEOs, CMOs, different people such as that.

Almost panic sometimes can set in and you almost lose yourself. You almost forget the core elements of what you do. And even my playbook, my coaching playbook, as it were almost, was becoming irrelevant. I had to step back for a second myself and kind of zoom out and say, well, what, what is happening here?

And here’s a couple things that came to mind for me. I had to remind folks a few things of a few things. There are three things that do not change even in the case of pandemic. One. Your why does not change. The very reason, uh, that you’re here, your purpose, your why does not change. Two, who you serve does not change, and three, what you do does not change.

Now, two things may change, right? Um, where you do it. . So where you conduct business, how you do it, working from home, in the office, et cetera, and how you get it done, that might change, right? But the why, the who, the what. Those things don’t change. And so, Similarly, as you cross the year, those things don’t have to change.

You know what I mean? Like, like be consistent. Have the accountability I talked about before. And so one of the things I did with folks is walk them through a process that I think is very appropriate here. And I call it the stop start and continue list, because sometimes it’s the things. That are, are, are in our way or the things that we’re doing every day that become the things that can hold us up or accelerate us.

So I call it the stop start and continue list. By the way, I didn’t make up this list. This is a tried, true, and well used technique that people have used over time. So let me walk through it, stop, start, and continue. So if you were like literally on a piece of paper, writing down three lists, you write, stop, have a column, start, have a column, continue.

on the stop list, there are a couple questions I would ask you to consider putting in the stop column. Here’s the first question, and these again, are around things that are going to affect your purpose, your passion, and your priorities. Okay? Because again, I started with, it’s not about New Year’s resolution, it’s about being resolved to continue doing what God has called you to do.

So on the stop list, this list should include items that are not contributing to your purpose, your passion, or your prior. So just think about what you do every day. If there are things that are not contributing to your purpose, passion, and priorities, you should really consider. Do you need to keep doing them?

If you’ve ever seen the movie office space, it’s like the t p s reports. Why are we producing those reports every day? Why do we keep doing it? Just ask yourself, why am I continuing to do that? This list should also include things that do not give you energy. Or that are draining your energy. I mean, just be real about that.

A lot of times we know what those things are, but we continue doing them. We kind of just chalk it up as this is just a part of the everyday life. This is just a part of the The journey, right? The hamster on the wheel. It doesn’t have to be, you can make a choice. You can put it on the stop list and you can determine how you deal with it at a later time, but at least put it on the list so you’re cognizant of it and can deal with it.

The second list is like the start. The things that you may want to start doing because you believe they will contribute to your purpose, passionate priorities, things that you’ve been eyeing, things that you be going, you know what, that’s an idea I like to test. There’s nothing wrong with testing things, giving it the shot saying, you know what?

I believe this will move me down the track in terms of achieving or making progress towards my purpose, passion, and priorities. Right. This list should also consist of items that will boost your energy and wellbeing. And then the last list is the continued list. And this is the hardest list because a lot of times we’ll do the stop list and definitively say These things are not contributing and I should pull ’em out.

And by the way, that should include with measured definition people. that are not contributing to your purpose, passion, and priorities, or that are draining your energy. The start list, right? Things you want to add and people you wanna add to your circle and spend more time with. But the continuous people sometimes take the stop list, the start list and say, ah, everything else should just happen.

No, the continuous should be items that are contributing to and that you know are contributing to. You have evidence that they’re contributing to your purpose, passion, and priorities. Like you could look at them and go, Absolutely. . I know they make a difference. I know each time I do this thing, I contribute to the, you know, I spend time here, I invest here.

I can see the return. I see it contributes. It makes sense for me to consistently invest because time is not a renewable asset. We, we can’t get more time. You can replenish your money, you can replenish other things that you do, but you cannot replenish time. Family. If nothing else, if you take away from this, please consider doing the stop start, continue exercise.

I’m gonna jump into some more music. If you are on the Instagram Live or if you’re listening to us on Sirius XM Holy Culture Radio, go to the Instagram post. Drop me some of your year. Begin tips, cuz I love to hear them and share them with our audience. Y’all keep it locked, right? Here it is. Holy Culture Radio, Sirius XM, channel one to the five. To the four. And we’ll be here for a minute y’all. It’s your man. Corelink Solution show. You’re listening to the Core Link Solution Show with James Rosseau Sr.

Hey, what’s up y’all? Welcome back to uh, popup edition of the Core Link Solution Show with James Rosseau, a k a trig, and uh, man, what a Friday afternoon.

I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying this first week of January. I meant to tell you earlier, it is crazy nice weather here in Wilmington, Delaware. It is, I think 45 degrees today going up to about 50. So, um, I’m loving it. I was talking to Cross, I think that was late last week. I think he said it was negative five degrees in Minnesota.

So. God bless you, bro. I pray you’re doing well. I know, uh, right now if Focus is listening. I know it’s probably, uh, 10 degrees, 20 degrees in, um, Cleveland. Yep. Sorry bro. But yeah, 40, 40, 50 degrees here. So, um, I’ll take it. I’ll take it, I’ll take it. So let me continue this conversation with my very last tip again on this year.

Begin y’all. How do we begin the year? Again, my very first point was, man, don’t, don’t consider necessarily, you don’t have to consider New Year’s resolutions, but consider being resolved in the purpose that the Lord has given you. I like to say purpose, passion, and then your priorities, right? And then I talked about gratitude, right?

Being grateful for all that the Lord has done. I mean, you could look back from the simple thing of waking up this morning on this side of the grass to. Having clothes on your back, food on your table, the family, your loved ones, all the things that we can easily take for granted. And then being cognizant of the fact that as we get to the end of the year and start to look forward to the new year, there’s this natural thing that often happens, which is this almost vacuum that starts to take place of those things don’t exist.

All these things are in front of us. These perceived missing elements that jump out in front of us, and they may not be missing at all, but this vacuum sense to happen of, you know, pulling all the things that we are thankful for outta the way. So start with some intentional gratitude to remind yourself of the things you’re grateful of.

Then I talked about the. Stop start continue list, right? Stopping things that aren’t contributing to your passion, your purpose, your priorities. Starting things that you believe may contribute to them, and then continuing things that you’ve seen prove. To contribute, and that’s a key word. Continue things that you’ve seen prove to, not because you’re used to doing them, not because they may not take up that much time.

Oh, I can just do it as a part of my schedule. No, no, no. Because you’ve seen them contribute. Because again, time is not a renewable asset. We all get the same amount, but it’s not renewable. So every bit of time you spend is important. And that’s a good segue to the third and last tip before I get outta here, which is managing your calendar.

Family managing, I know I probably sound old even saying that. Managing your calendar. What you mean managing calendar Trig? Yes. Managing your calendar. Okay. So whether you use , a calendar on your phone, your, your pc, your laptop. If your old school like to write things down at the top of the day, your calendar.

Is a tool that you can utilize to help keep you on track. Some people literally go, you know, meeting by meeting something, pings them five minutes before the next meeting and they, they run and they go and you know, my, what happened to me? I remember at one point. I was mentoring folks and I, I had a philosophy of if someone asked me to assist them with mentoring, I would not say no to who much is given.

Much is required. I wanted to try to be a resource and to the extent that I could, if someone thought I could be helpful, let me try to be helpful. And I remember my assistant saying, one day person manage my calendar. You don’t have any more time. Oh, you have to create some time. Well, how do you do that? I don’t know, create some time.

As I started looking through my calendar, there was meet, there were meetings. I. Attending often that were not necessarily value added for me. You know, you, you get into meetings sometimes and then they become a recurring meeting because they’re a part of a project or initiative, so on and so forth. And next thing you know, you’re there seems like perpetually.

And so I said, Hmm, let’s take a, take a SW at this. And, and once this started, I’ve been trying to do this ever since color coding, the meetings on my calendar. So here’s how I started color coding. Green. Green means it’s fairly obvious, right? Green means it contributes to my purpose, my passion, my priorities, color code, the meeting’s.

Green means, listen. This is a part of what I said I was gonna do this year. This is contributing to a project that I’ve initiated that’s aligned with my purpose, my passion, my priorities. This is on task, right? Bullseye. Those are green, yellow, or amber. Yellow or amber, right? Yellow means this is a look.

This is something I’ve been asked to attend. It may be non-discretionary, to be honest. It may be a meeting my boss says I need to attend my manager, et cetera. Uh, but it’s, you know, it’s yellow because it just says to me, I need to be there, but it’s not necessarily totally fully aligned with the things I need to do.

Now you may say, well, staff meeting is aligned. Okay, maybe the bad example, but you get my point, right? It’s not bullseye. To the things I’m focused on, and then red means it is absolutely not. Red means somehow I got pulled into something that is now on my calendar and I’m not even sure why I’m attending this thing.

And it’s funny how many red things wind up getting on our calendars. And you go, I, I’m not sure why I’m there. And the beauty of color coding it, the first time you do it, it’s, it’s, it’s a heavy lift because you’ve never done. . But there’s a, there’s a few things that are interesting about it, depending on what calendar tool you’re using.

Like if you’re using Google calendars or, uh, spreadsheets or whatever the case, I’m sorry, Google Calendar or, um, Microsoft Outlook or whatever the recurring ones, once you color code it, right, it takes it through the rest of the scheduled entries. So it’s, it’s taking, so, so next thing you know, you look at your calendar and it’s this colorful picture.

It’s like a painting. And you go, wow, okay. And it lets you see. This picture of what the coloring looks like. So if it’s mostly green, you’re really happy. Yo, this is great. I have a mostly green calendar, which means I’m spending most of my time on things that are aligned to my purpose, passion, and priorities.

That’s awesome. But if you, you’re highly yellow, you go, there’s some opportunity there. Are there places? Where I’ve planted these things on my calendar that I may have considered non-discretionary, then I can challenge those things a little bit. Can I send someone else on my behalf? Has this project just run amuck and it’s just gone on forever into infinity?

Can I figure out a way to cut it short? Should we call, make the call that this is not happening? Because if it’s not aligned with your purpose, passion, and priorities, why are you there continually to infinity? And then the reds, you know what to do. It’s like the stop list. How do I stop that? How do I stop going to that meeting continually?

Now, obviously, you’re gonna have some one-offs, right? So week to week you may have yellows or reds pop up, right? That’s unavoidable. You’re gonna have some things pop up when you say, I need to go to that. It’s the right thing to do. I need to be there, show my face, or be a part of that, help resolve this issue.

But to the extent that you start managing them and making conscious decisions, and that’s just. Making conscious decisions. Cause as you go to, as you go to put a meeting on your calendar, you’re color coding it at the moment. That right there, just making that decision makes a difference in terms of what you allow to get on your calendar family.

So listen, I hope this discussion’s been helpful. If you’ve got more comments, uh, we can continue this cuz I may do another popup next week. We’ll see what happens. I can’t make any guarantees, but we’ll see what happens. And until then, family, listen, continue the joy this new year, continue to run into it.

Again, not about a resolution, but being resolved in what God has called you to do. Continue to love on folks around you. Listen, I like, like all of you, I am continuing to send my thoughts and prayers out. Um, to a lot of folks right now, my man, Chris Bussard, lost his father. Uh, last week I, when I texted him the other day, he was heading down for the funeral continuous and thoughts and prayers out to DeMar Hamlin and his.

Uh, and, and all those impacted, uh, by it. And, um, man, we, we are starting the year out with a lot of opportunity, but also already with a lot of pain. And so I’m just sending thoughts and prayers out to those, dealing with a lot of different things already and let’s do that for each other, y’all. Let’s just love on people early.

Let’s continue that y’all. Until next time, been James Rosseau AKA Trig with the Corelink Solution. Stay blessed. Keep it right here. Holy Culture Radio channel one five to the four.

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