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My husband is about to file an I-485 based on EB-5. I am supposed to file with him. However, I am in the pending process of an I-539 and a USCIS request for evidence. I wrote a withdrawal letter to USCIS and I am waiting for their decision. The problem is that I canceled my status last month (out of status), and now, everything is in pending process. Am still in authorized stay according to i-485 edibility? Can I file an i-485 before my I-539 has a final decision?
You should not withdraw the I-539.
By implication, the last action usually takes precedence over previous action. In essence, your withdrawal letter will nullify the pending I-539 request. Thus, practically you will end up without any authority to stay in the U.S. Filing an I-485 may not be helpful because the withdrawal of the I-539 means you are not in legal status and therefore cannot adjust while in the U.S. Unless you can successfully comply with the I-539, provide the USCIS with the requested evidence and further direct the USCIS to set aside your withdrawal letter, you are not likely to be able to adjust in the U.S. Also be aware that unless you maintain lawful status in the U.S. any I-485 filed on your behalf will be denied and you can be subjected to disbarment from re-entering the U.S. for a substantial amount of time depending on the length of your overstay. For instance, if you overstay for more than six months the disbarment is three years and if the overstay period is over a year, the disbarment is 10 years. Advisably, talk to an EB-5 immigration attorney on the implications of your contemplated decisions.
If your prior status expired, and you no longer have an application for extension of stay pending, then it appears that you are no longer maintaining a lawful status in the United States and are no longer eligible to adjust status in the United States. This means that an I-485 filed upon your behalf should not be approved. You also appear to be unlawfully present in the U.S. Depending on various factors you appear to have become unlawfully present when your form I-94 expired, or when you withdrew your I-539. In any event, if you are unlawfully present in the U.S. for more than 180 days, then depart the U.S., you will be barred from returning to the U.S. for three years. If you are unlawfully present for more than a year, you will be barred from returning to the U.S. for 10 years. You may however be eligible for a waiver if you can establish that your husband (or your U.S. citizen or permanent resident parent(s), if any, would suffer extreme hardship if you are not allowed to return to the U.S. If you are not subject to the three or 10 year bars (or if you get a waiver) then you may be permitted to immigrate to the U.S. after your husband becomes a permanent resident, but to do so you would have to apply for an immigrant visa at a consulate office.
You may file your I-485 while the I-539 is pending, but USCIS will adjudicate the I-539 first. If they approve it, then there is no problem. If they deny it, you will continue to be in a period of authorized stay (i.e., not accruing unlawful presence) due to your timely-filed I-485, but you will not be eligible for adjustment of status because you will not be in any valid non-immigrant status. If that happens, you likely will have to complete the immigrant visa process abroad at the U.S. embassy or consulate in your home country.
On the basis of an I-526 petition being approved you can apply for conditional permanent residency. If you are in legal non- immigrant status, such as B-2 visitor status, only then you can file an I-485 application in the U.S. This application will lead to the granting of conditional permanent residency. If you are not in legal status you cannot file an application for conditional permanent residency status.
In reference to your question, in order to file an I-485 you must have maintained your status. If you file a timely request for an extension of status (on Form I-539, for example), you are considered to still be in an authorized period of stay while the request is pending, so you could file an I-485 while the request is pending. However, since you sent a withdrawal request, USCIS could take the position that your status was terminated as of the date of the withdrawal. In that case, you would need to leave the U.S. and consular process.
To use the I-485 to adjust status, you must be in lawful U.S. status first. You are adjusting from U.S. non-immigrant status to that of a permanent resident. If you are not in legal status, you may not be able to adjust, and may have to obtain your conditional permanent residency through a U.S. consulate.
Do not withdraw the I-539 extension application. Currently, if you have a receipt notice for that, you could quickly file the I-485 as you are in valid status as pending extension application adjudication. If you withdraw, then you will be out of status from the time that you sent in the withdrawal letter of I-539 and you cannot get your I-485 filed as you are out of status. Your immigration attorney who filed the I-526 for you should be advising you of this.


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Alexander Kolchenko is a Crimean anarchist, social activist and antifascist who is held in captivity by the Russian authorities. Along with other Crimean activists, he has been kidnapped by the Russian FSB (ex-KGB) and is now detained as a political hostage in Lefortovo jail in Moscow. He is charged with committing "acts of terrorism" and "belonging to a terrorist community".
Only strong and massive pressure on the Putin regime, protests around the world would give a chance to set our comrades free. We demand their immediate discharge and the end of their prosecution.
Alexander, who has undeniably proved his antifascist stance over many years, is facing preposterous accusations of belonging to "Right Sector", a radical Ukrainian right-wing organization, whose real role in Ukrainian events is blown out of proportion by Russian official propaganda. In modern Russia any activist — left-wing, anarchist or liberal — can be slandered as a member or sympathizer of "Right Sector". This situation is comparable to the hunt for nonexistent "Trotskyists" under Stalin, or the McCarthy witch-hunt for communists. Putin's authoritarian and nationalist regime, which uses in its propaganda everything from religious prejudices and conspiracy theories to outright racism, shamelessly steals "antifascist" rhetoric. And yet anyone who is considered bothersome is called a "fascist", even if he/she stands on the opposite side of the political spectrum.The case against antifascist Alexander Kolchenko and civil activist and film director Oleg Sentsov (investigators enrolled them into the same "terrorist" group) is political. It is meant to intimidate inhabitants of Crimea and prevent any resistance on the peninsula. The most authoritarian of methods are now used in annexed Crimea to repress all discontent. Many people were obliged to leave Crimea because their life and freedom were threatened: lawyers, left-wing activists, students and trade union activists, anarchists, antifascists and Crimean Tatar activists who have fallen victims of ethnic discrimination.
A terrible prison sentence of up to 20 years threatens Alexander Kolchenko for a non-existent "terrorist attack" in which he was not involved. Kolchenko and other Ukrainian political prisoners are detained only in order to demoralize opposition by show trials. Their freedom is directly linked to the stability of the Putin regime: if we can shake the confidence of Putin in his impunity, the prisoners will be set free. There is no hope that Kolchenko, Sentsov and others would be judged by the law. Their arrest was unlawful, the charges against them are far-fetched. It's not a mistake, the regime knows what it's doing.
We're asking international left-wing and libertarian forces for help. You can organize and lead actions of protest and solidarity, write letters to Kolchenko, send donations for lawyers and food parcels, help his family. It is also important to spread information about his case. Most of all, we need to dissociate ourselves from any forces that support aggressive expansion of Russian nationalism, even if they cover it up with "leftist" and "anti-imperialist" rhetoric. Putin's regime is doing just fine without your sympathy, better save it for those who have become its victims.


Jeffrey Drouin is Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Modernist Journals Project at the University of Tulsa. He is the author of James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: "The Einstein of English Fiction" (Routledge, 2015) and has published articles on computational techniques in modernist periodical studies, the analog and digital in Joyce's Finnegans Wake, and the First World War. He is currently completing a digital humanities project and book on church architecture and memory in Proust.


4 I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do. 5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. 7 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
22 And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? 26 If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even S olomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29 And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. 30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.
27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Thanks for the encouragement from God's word! 🙂 I know these truths in my head but have to remind myself over and over to get them into my heart. This helps me do that.
All beautiful verses – Thanks for sharing!


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Stenostephanus sessilifolius är en akantusväxtart som först beskrevs av Oerst., och fick sitt nu gällande namn av T.F.Daniel. Stenostephanus sessilifolius ingår i släktet Stenostephanus och familjen akantusväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Akantusväxter
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Q: Read a file in a browser in JS I'm trying to understand how can I read a file in js
So I start to use node js for use the fs package
So I'm doing some thing like this, it works :
var fs = require('fs');

function allTopics() {
    const result = new Map();
        try {
            const fileContent = fs.readFileSync( "../svg/plan.svg","UTF-8");
            const lines = fileContent.split("\n");
            const listTickets = retrieveTopic(lines);
            listTickets.forEach(function (value, i) {
                result.set(i, value);
            });
        } catch (err) {
            return Promise.reject("ERROR: Cannot find file");
        }
        console.log(result);
        return result;
}

function retrieveTopic(lines) {
    const listTopic = [];
    lines.forEach((line) => {
        const topicMatch = line.match(/\{[\w\/]+\}/g);
                if (topicMatch) {
                    listTopic.push(topicMatch[0]);
                }
    })
    return listTopic;
}

allTopics();
module.exports = { allTopics };

So now what I want, it's to use this but into a html file for see in browser into console :
<script>
function allTopics() {
    const result = new Map();
        try {
            const fileContent = fs.readFileSync( "../svg/plan.svg","UTF-8");
            const lines = fileContent.split("\n");
            const listTickets = retrieveTopic(lines);
            listTickets.forEach(function (value, i) {
                result.set(i, value);
            });
        } catch (err) {
            return Promise.reject("ERROR: Cannot find file");
        }
        console.log(result);
        return result;
}

function retrieveTopic(lines) {
    const listTopic = [];
    lines.forEach((line) => {
        const topicMatch = line.match(/\{[\w\/]+\}/g);
                if (topicMatch) {
                    listTopic.push(topicMatch[0]);
                }
    })
    return listTopic;
}

The problem is that you can't use fs into browser, so I can read a file and see the output into a browser console
I don't wanna use something like input and then choosen file
Thanks for your help

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Comer focuses on Penn Biden Center in investigation of classified documents
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the chair of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is zeroing in on the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C., as part of the panel's investigation into classified documents discovered in President Biden's former office at the think tank.
Comer is specifically interested in learning about who had access to the Penn Biden Center, a visitor log of those who met with Biden at the think tank, security at the facility and any donations to the center that may link back to China. He laid out the requests in a letter to University of Pennsylvania President Mary Elizabeth Magill on Tuesday, asking that all materials be handed over by Feb. 1.
"The Committee is concerned about who had access to these documents given the Biden family's financial connections to foreign actors and companies," Comer wrote in the letter, obtained by Punchbowl News. "The Committee requests documents and information related to foreign influence at UPenn and the Penn Biden Center."
The request to the Penn Biden Center comes after Comer over the weekend asked the White House to release visitor logs for Biden's residence in Wilmington, Del., where a tranche of classified documents from the Obama administration was found. The White House counsel's office, however, has said that visitor logs do not exist for the location because it is a personal residence.
Comer's Oversight and Accountability Committee is one of several congressional panels looking into the discovery of classified documents at Biden's home in Wilmington and office at the Penn Biden Center. Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) launched an investigation into the matter, zeroing in on the Justice Department's actions in relation to the situation.
Roughly two dozen materials with classified markings have been discovered at Biden's home and former office. The first tranche was first discovered in early November, but the White House only disclosed the finding this month. Since then, the White House has announced additional discoveries.
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the matter last week. Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, has said the White House will cooperate with the special counsel.
Comer on Wednesday said "the American people deserve to know whether the Chinese Communist Party, through Chinese companies, influenced potential Biden Administration policies with large, anonymous donations to UPenn and the Penn Biden Center."
He laid out information he said the committee has learned regarding donations to the think tank that are linked to China, reaching tens of millions of dollars. The letter also claimed that Biden, while vice president and afterward, "met with his family's international business partners" and raised concerns about Hunter Biden, the president's son, having access to the classified documents found at Biden's Wilmington home.
"It is imperative to understand whether any Biden family members or associates gained access to the classified documents while stored at the Penn Biden Center," Comer wrote.
Police searching for man wanted for sexual assault
13.51-pound bass caught in East Texas
4 East Texas men arrested in undercover sting
Tyler man pleads guilty to intoxicated manslaughter
Headliner announced for 2023 Red Dirt music festival
Longview Police Department asks for $500,000 in grants
Local cities come together to meet needs of homeless
Marshall man must repay $300,000 for tax crime
Contractor allegedly scams elderly woman out of $28k

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Q: Xcode 8.2.1 ,IOS 8 Simulator with crash dyld: Symbol not found: _ASCIIEncoding_GetByteCount_m1396020051 I am building a game for IOS using unity, but the build crashes. I am using unity version 5.5 and Xcode 8.2.1

dyld: Symbol not found: _ASCIIEncoding_GetByteCount_m1396020051
  Referenced from: /var/containers/Bundle/Application/
  Expected in: flat namespace
   in /var/containers/Bundle/Application/

This is my pod file:
source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
install! 'cocoapods', :integrate_targets => false
platform :ios, '8.0'
target 'Unity-iPhone' do
pod 'Google-Mobile-Ads-SDK', '~> 7.13'
end
post_install do |installer|
installer.pods_project.targets.each do |target|
 target.build_configurations.each do |config|
   config.build_settings['ENABLE_BITCODE'] = 'NO'
 end
 end
 end

Please help me on this.

A: The issue is due to the missing framework. Kindly check foundation framework is added or not.
Make sure you have Foundation framework to your project. (Remove and add it again to be sure).

Also clean deep clean the code and run it again.
shift + cmd + K


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+ ~~**REALLY need to import the `realTopLayoutGuide` categories**~~
+ ~~**REALLY need to cleanup scrollView observer properly**~~
+ ~~Add ability to remove extension view~~
+ ~~Add tolerance customization~~
+ ~~Add more convenience methods for the `UIViewController` category~~
+ ~~CocoaPods support~~
+ ~~Update GIF to focus on the navbar, and demo the scroll ended animation feature~~
+ ~~Rename TLYShyNavBarController files to Manager~~
+ ~~Solve the scrollView did end dragging problem~~
+ ~~Fix orientation problems~~
+ ~~Don't end scrolling while the scrollView is decelerating. (isTracking property in gesture recognizer?)~~
+ ~~Write proper readme file~~

## Good to Have

+ Support contracting toolbar

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Councilman defends use of profane, insulting language in battle over Badlands

City Council recommending committee on open space ordinance

Posted at 3:37 PM, Oct 16, 2018
A Las Vegas city councilman is defending his admittedly foul mouth -- specifically the insulting language he used to describe a local developer. It's the latest volley in the battle over Badlands.
"If I think somebody's a jerk, I'll tell them. If I have to add a few adjectives to emphasize it..."
On TV, we can't say or show the adjectives Councilman Bob Coffin used to describe developer Yohan Lowie.
Coffin's comments were captured in correspondence with a Queensridge homeowner, sent from Coffin's personal email.
"On an email or a text message to someone -- particularly someone who needs to hear that someone feels the same way they do -- then I think that it's... really, I don't care what I say," Coffin said.
In that August email, also sent to the mayor and council, Coffin writes that Lowie "appears to be in the grip of several mental disorders."
Coffin says he used his personal email with the assumption that the exchange would be kept private.
"You know what? You can call somebody anything you want in that kind of venue," Coffin said.
But his emails and text messages became public as part of the ongoing battle over the defunct Badlands golf course, which Darcy Spears first reported last Friday.
Lowie owns the land, which is zoned for residential development, but some Queensridge homeowners want it preserved as open space and so far, the council has denied all of Lowie's building permit applications.
Some opponents of the development spoke out in a city hearing Monday, urging the council to adopt a new open space ordinance.
One woman who spoke during a public comment period said, "If this ordinance was in place, developers wouldn't buy open space and wouldn't buy golf courses thinking that they were going to turn a huge profit on the backs of the homeowners and at the expense of the homeowners."
"Even though the property is zoned for residential. Even though those homeowners said in the documents they signed when they bought their residences that they had no rights to the golf course," points out Lowie's lawyer, Mark Hutchison, who is also Nevada's lieutenant governor.
"You've got people who are simply abusing their power on the city council," Hutchison said.
Coffin denies that, saying homeowners who oppose the development must be protected.
"People who are being encroached upon by a small, fine print item -- and God knows who reads all the fine print -- it just doesn't have the ring of fairness."
Lowie and his lawyers say the city's approach has been patently unfair, accusing Coffin of bias and prejudice for calling the developer a "crazy Israeli" in a text message.
"Crazy Israeli is a joke," said Coffin. "Crazy Israeli is a t-shirt slogan. It's quite popular. It just rhymes and that is not a pejorative term."
Coffin also said this to Lowie during the Feb. 15, 2017 city council meeting: "You have rights, but you've got to stop treating these people like a bunch of unruly Palestinians getting thrown -- you know -- a concrete block settlement thrown into their land right there."
Coffin says that was a joke too, but Lowie isn't laughing. He calls it "a very sad commentary."
Lowie also points to a text message Coffin sent where he calls Lowie "scum" and asks if there's "intel" on him, writing "dirt will be handy if I need to get rough."
"Well, I know that they've gotten pretty dirty with me with this idea of calling me anti-Semitic in a town that I grew up with Jews since childhood," Coffin said.
We questioned Coffin about whether he could get past the mudslinging.
"Do you believe that your feelings toward Lowie color your ability to vote impartially on any matter that he brings before the council?" Darcy Spears asked.
"No," Coffin answered. "In fact, I have voted for a number of items that he has proposed."
He cites the downtown court building and a future expansion of Tivoli Village as examples.
"I may feel that he has run roughshod over the people, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't have good projects. He might. This particular case is just different," Coffin explained.
The questions about Badlands will ultimately be answered in court.
The battle has already cost taxpayers more than $716,500.
As for the open space ordinance, the city council will most likely vote on that on Nov. 7.
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The goods and services (GST) act most probably won't come into effect from the self-imposed deadline of April 1, 2016 as central and state finance officials are yet to reach a consensus on varying topics.
It is being said that the implementation of GST may be delayed by 3 months.
The push comes in the wake of demonetisation, rendering officials confused by the wayward economy of the country at present.
The officials are to meet again at December 22, 2016 to resume further discussions, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said after talks in New Delhi on 11th December, 2016.


Political signs – HB 1754 specified that a deed restriction, covenant, or similar binding agreement running with a parcel of land cannot prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting the display of political signs. A homeowners' association may adopt reasonable rules regarding political signs as specified in the bill. A homeowners' association may not remove a sign or impose a fine or penalty unless written notice of a reasonable rule violation has been given and a three-day period has passed. The LAC monitored this legislation, which is also a perennial issue. It passed in the House but died in the Senate.
Solar panel restrictions – HB 2152 and SB 631 prohibit the adoption of a bylaw or the exercise of any power by a homeowners' association, common interest community association, or condominium unit owners' association that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting the installation of a solar energy system. They provide no deed restrictions, covenants, or similar binding agreement running with the land can prohibit the installation of a system on a building that is subject to these associations. Further, they required the placement of a solar system may be regulated per criteria specified in the bill and each association must adopt an energy policy statement regarding the location, design, and architectural requirements of a system within 120 days upon the request for a statement or an application from an association member. Whenever approval is required for the installation or use of a system, the application for approval must be processed by the appropriate approving entity of the association within 90 days after the submission of the application. This is a perennial issue that the LAC opposed. It died in the House.
HOA Act – HB 2361 created a regulatory scheme for homeowners associations. The bill regulates the management and operation of associations including the organizational structure, required officers of the associations, the powers of the associations, and the process for transfer of control from a developer to an association as lots are sold in new developments. The bill also lists terms which must be included in the by-laws of a homeowners association, including the required number of members of the executive board and titles for those members, the election process for the members, powers and qualifications of the board, powers which may be delegated to other persons or a managing agent, and provisions relating to meetings, voting, quorums, financial responsibilities, special assessments, and other activities of the association. The LAC worked to have this version of an HOA act introduced. This version, as well as others introduced this session, died upon adjournment.
Short-term rental restrictions – HB 2662 prohibits political subdivisions from enacting or enforcing an ordinance prohibiting or unreasonably restricting residential dwelling rentals. The bill did not appear to address community associations' ability to regulate short-term rentals, so the LAC was neutral and only monitored the measure.
Amateur radio service – A mirror of pending Federal legislation, HB 1951 prohibits the use of deeds, restrictive covenants, or other contractual obligations involving land to impede the use of amateur service communications as defined in federal law. Reasonable accommodation for such services is required and any restrictions must be minimal and imposed to serve legitimate purposes. The controversial measure passed the House 82-69 and died in the Senate. The LAC opposed this measure and expects it to be reintroduced in 2017.


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COVID vaccine and genetic thunder nobody is listening to
The Crazz Files May 19, 2021
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I've written about this before, and I'm sure I'll write about it again.
We're told that the RNA COVID vaccines force the cells of the body to produce a foreign "spike" protein.
There is a little thing you may have heard of called EVIDENCE.
In other words, show me a well-done study, using a few thousand people who have been vaccinated, which proves that all these people's cells ARE producing that foreign protein and ONLY that foreign protein.
There isn't such a study.
But if there were—
"Look, a few hundred people didn't produce the spike protein at all. Wonder what they DID produce."
"I see a hundred people out of two thousand who produced a huge excess of the spike protein. Wonder what effect THAT is having."
"I see two hundred people who produced the spike protein plus a bunch of other foreign proteins. A few of those foreign compounds I've never seen before. That's not good at all."
In fact, show me a large-scale study in which an injection is designed to force the human body to produce ANY specific protein. Let's see the results.
Can't find that study, either?
Believing what genetic researchers tell you is like believing what a grifter tells you about how to win at roulette.
For example, are you aware that, after decades of genetic research and tens of thousands of studies linking genes to diseases, there isn't a single gene-treatment that can cure a disease across the board?
What there is, is a great deal of money that hustlers have raised for bio-tech firms. And there are many sky-blue promises.
And oh yes, there are many examples of errors, in which experimental gene insertions yield unexpected results. Unintended and dangerous results. Unpredicted alterations in genomes.
So the huge numbers of reported injuries and deaths from the COVID RNA vaccines are surely the result of more than just the production of the spike protein.
Why is nobody talking about this?
Because people assume the problem must be the spike protein and only that protein.
The people of planet Earth are part of a guinea-pig vaccine experiment that is much wider than that. We are being subjected to an open-ended genetic spin of the roulette wheel.
And there are no safeguards and no comprehensive follow-ups.
For this reason alone, the entire effort to develop the RNA injections should have been banned from the beginning—until researchers demonstrated convincingly that the risks would be minimal. Of course, they couldn't make that guarantee.
But the fatuously named Warp Speed program rocketed ahead. Based on pretentious and speculative "science."
People tend to think—because they watch sci-fi movies—that scientific evil doers are firing a perfectly destructive single arrow at the heart of humanity. But evil-doers are quite capable of launching a thunderstorm of multiple pyrotechnics beyond their control.
As I pointed out in prior articles on this subject, the analogous area of GMO plant genetics is replete with uncontrolled effects—including gene drift, in which injected Monsanto genes move from plants into soil bacteria and human gut bacteria.
Genetic ripple-effects throughout an organism can force the unnatural production of a number of different proteins while modifying others.
This is NOT good; and some of the ways in which it is not good are unknown.
Based on the current level of knowledge in the field of gene-research, the entire program of manufacturing and injecting RNA into the body is an insane criminal enterprise.
As time passes, I expect investigators to discover new ways in which these RNA shots are harming people. And some of those investigators will say, "THIS turns out to be what the vaccine is doing. THIS one thing." And they'll be wrong.
It's five, ten, 20 different things. Caused by ripple effects throughout the genome.
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Every dc Talk Song Ranked
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It's a close call but due to starting with them earlier in my musical journey than any other band, dc Talk takes the honor of being the most influential on formative years during the 90s. With four albums releasing in the decade and three of the four maintaining classic status to this day they have a strong albeit short(ish) catalogue. After combing back through their body of work I was surprised to see the high amount of cover songs (11) that they mixed in to their albums. In fact, if you don't count the covers, skits, and spoken word pieces, their original output was a mere fifty-seven songs. Further still some of those originals don't hold up well and remain on the cringe-y side. However, all that said, dc Talk packed a powerful and undeniable impact on the Christian music world. Each of their last three albums could pass for greatest hits compilations. Ultimately, there are…so. Many. Great. Songs.
Here's my attempt to rank every skit, song, or spoken word ever recorded by the band. Hope you enjoy!
77. "WDCT"
76. "2 Honks & A Negro"
75. "Time Tah Jam"
74. "Final Days"
73. "Voices Praise Him"
72. "Gah To Be"
71. "Word 2 The Father"
70. "We Three Kings" – Joyful Christmas Compilation (1994)
69. "Jesus is Just Alright (Reprise)"
68. "Godsend"
67. "The King (Aleluia)"
66. "Testimony"
65. "Mrs. Morgan"
64. "Don't Want It"
63. "He Loves Me"
62. "When Dctalks"
61. "He Works"
60. "I Luv Rap Music"
59. "Nu Thang"
58. "Talk It Out"
57. "Can I Get A Witness"
56. "Children Can Live (Without It)"
55. "Willpower"
54. "Greer"
53. "Take It To The Lord"
52. "Walls"
51. "Let's Roll" – Let's Roll: Together In Unity Faith Hope (2002)
50. "Chance" – Intermission: The Greatest Hits (2000)
49. "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" – Welcome To The Freakshow (1997)
48. "Heavenbound"
46. "Help" – Welcome To The Freakshow (1997)
45. "Fly Like An Eagle" – Welcome To The Freakshow (1997)
44. "Wanna Be Loved"
43. "Jesus Freak (Reprise)"
42. "Fearless"
41. "Spinnin' Round"
40. "There Is A Treason At Sea"
39. "No More"
38. "The Cross" – Kevin Max Album The Blood (2007)
37. "Alas, My Love"
36. "That Kind of Girl"
35. "Love Feels Like" – Tobymac Album This Is Not A Test (2015)
34. "40" – Solo (2001)
33. "Things Of This World"
32. "Red Letters"
31. "Spirit In The Sky" – Music From And Inspired By Jesus The Epic Mini-Series (2000)
30. "My Deliverer" – Prince of Egypt Soundtrack/Rich Mullins Cover (1998)
29. "Sugarcoat It" – Intermission: Greatest Hits (2000)
28. "Into Jesus"
27. "Like It, Love It, Need It"
26. "Supernatural"
25. "Atmosphere" – Tobymac Album Welcome To Diverse City (2004)
24. "Its Killing Me"
23. "Consume Me"
22. "Lean On Me"
21. "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" – One Way: The Songs of Larry Norman (1995)
20. "Since I Met You"
19. "Free At Last"
18. "Day By Day
17. "Mind's Eye"
16. "Socially Acceptable"
15. "Jesus Is Just Alright With Me"
14. "So Help Me God"
13. "Time Is…"
12. "Dive"
11. "Just Between You And Me"
10. "Say The Words"
9. "Luv Is A Verb"
8. "What Have We Become?"
7. "Colored People"
6. "My Will"
5. "The Hardway"
4. "In The Light"
3. "My Friend (So Long)"
2. "Jesus Freak"
1. "What If I Stumble"
There you have it! What do you think? How would you rank their top 10 songs? Top 25? I'd love to hear from you! Like the post if you liked it, leave a comment where you agree/disagree, or share it with a fellow dc Talk fan if you wanted foster conversation about the 90s best super group!
As always…Happy listening!
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Chris K says:
And here, finally, is my dc talk list! Putting this together has made me realise that there's still a 17-year-old in me who hasn't fully processed the fact that his favourite band broke up – always holding on to a hope that the intermission will finally come to an end!
#20 So Long My Friend (Supernatural)
#19 Mind's Eye (Jesus Freak)
#18 Say the Words (Free at Last)
#17 So Help Me God (Jesus Freak)
#16 What Have We Become (Jesus Freak)
#15 My Deliverer (Prince of Egypt) – such a good cover of a great song. If they can't agree on anything new, dc talk could always do covers of underappreciated gems from CCM history.
#14 Atmosphere (Welcome to Diverse City) – what if they had contributed vocals on each other's early solo albums? Based on this, it would have turned pretty good songs into great ones.
#13 Supernatural (Supernatural) – they almost managed to outdo Jesus Freak with this one. Almost.
#12 My Will (Exodus)
#11 Luv Is a Verb (Free at Last) – Christmas '93, and my cool aunt gifts me a cassette by these Christian rappers. I've been deep deep down with the dc talk ever since. Love the more pronounced rock guitars on the Freakshow version.
#10 Between You and Me (Jesus Freak)
#9 Colored People (Jesus Freak) – growing up in 90s Germany (where some of the biggest US imports were hip hop, the NBA and Will Smith) I didn't realise the kind of statement they were making with this. It just seemed to declare a self-evident truth, and sounded great.
#8 Time Is (Free at Last) – the hardest rock song of my pre-teens!
#7 In the Light (Jesus Freak) – this one caught on in a pretty big way in my part of Germany.
#6 The Hardway (Free at Last) – I love the new ending on the Freakshow live version.
#5 Into Jesus (Supernatural) – the song that really impacted me when I first heard Supernatural, it was the theme song of my later teens.
#4 What If I Stumble (Jesus Freak) – love this more and more as time passes, as my walk has often been more of a crawl.
#3 Dive (Supernatural) – I like to imagine this as an indication of what dc talk could have sounded like if they had managed to agree on a shared artistic vision that didn't sound like anyone else. I would put this forward as the "best" dc talk song.
#2 Jesus Freak (Jesus Freak) – it's no exaggeration to say that this song (and the album) changed my life. It helped to shape my identity as a Christian teenager. Can't deny that it smells quite a bit like teen spirit, but it was exactly what I needed and I'll always be thankful for it.
#1 Consume Me (Supernatural) – when their three voices come together to worship God like this, it's just heavenly.
Well, there's still hope that there's more to come, right? And maybe we can all meet up for a dc talk cruise once we've all retired!
Blessings, Chris
jukeboxjunkiejosh says:
Great list! "Time is…" is such a great song
Lachlan Meurer says:
DC Talk arrived (well Jesus freak anyway) just after I left school and was the sound of the next half a decade. Some of there tunes are just simply some of the best songs of the era. My top 5 would be (and this is hard) 10. Nu thang (don't judge me lol) 9.What have we become? 8.Dive 7 What if I stumble? .6. My deliverer (SO UNDERRATED) 5.Colored people 4.Consume me 3.Between you and me 2. Jesus Freak 1. In the Light. Just awesome music.
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Great list! Your number 23 pick is my number one dc talk song, but otherwise my ranking would be pretty similar to yours (I've never listened to their first two albums, but I doubt it would change my top 30 or 40 very much)
Have been into dc talk since someone gifted me Free at Last as a 10-year old (Christmas 93), and then Jesus Freak really revolutionised my personal music journey. I just read your other blog about an imaginary sixth dc talk album. I often thought "what could have been" on those early solo albums – like I have to choose between eating cake, ice cream, or topping, when they taste best together!
It would be strange, but a part of me still hopes they'll come together for another album – I didn't think the intermission would still be ongoing in my late thirties 🙂
Yep, Dctalk, Jars of Clay, the Newsboys, PFR, The Kry, Audio Adrenaline and wonderful many more are absolutely essentials that shaped me as a young believer growing up. Still love them all greatly. Thanks for reading and commenting! I love connecting with people and taking them on joyrides down memory lane. Blessings!
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Nice job! Great list.
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Local Brummies deliver knitted angels
On a grey Wednesday at the beginning of December 2020, members from the Ageing Better team and people involved with the programme met up with a filming crew in Birmingham. We were filming an advert for the National Lottery. As you know, Ageing Better in Birmingham is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund to support people over 50 who are socially isolated across the city.
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Website: SpeedofTrust.com
Book: The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything
Bio: Stephen M. R. Covey is cofounder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide. A sought-after and compelling keynote speaker, author, and advisor on trust, leadership, ethics, and high performance, Covey speaks to audiences around the world. A Harvard MBA, he is the former CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which under his stewardship became the largest leadership development company in the world. Covey resides with his wife and children in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains.
Peter: Welcome to the Bregman Leadership podcast, I'm Peter Bregman your host and CEO of Bregman Partners. This podcast is part of my mission to help you get massive traction on the things that matter most.
We are lucky today in the podcast, we have with us, Stephen M. R. Covey. You probably know him for his book, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything. It's an excellent book, I really, really loved it and that's what we're here to talk about today. He is the co-founder and CEO of CoveyLink Worldwide, he used to be the CEO of Covey Leadership Center, which under his stewardship became the largest leadership development company in the world.
You also probably know his father of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, who is the author of that. But Stephen M. R. Covey comes with his own independent credentials and I've just enjoyed meeting you, Stephen, myself here. We have been on each other's radar and so it's really, really nice to actually connect in person. I'm excited to talk to you about the book.
Stephen: Well thank you Peter and I'm absolutely delighted to have this conversation with you. I admire you and your work and to be on your leadership podcast is a thrill so I'm really looking forward to this.
Peter: You're kind, thank you. So Stephen, I loved reading the forward by your father, you know you clearly had his trust and just from an outcome perspective of what this is all about, I wonder if you could talk just a few moments about what it feels like to have that kind of a blessing from your father, that kind of trust.
Stephen: Yeah, yeah. Well, really unbelievable and in fact, I remember it from my earliest years in the Seven Habits book my father's one of his signature stories is he calls green and clean. Where he's trying to teach his son, which was me, how to take care of the lawn and it really was a trust story because here I was a seven year old boy and he was trusting me to take care of the lawn. And this is back when you had to do manual sprinklers and everything and at first, I kinda felt but it just stayed with the trust and then I rose to the occasion and as a seven year old, became pretty responsible.
And it shows you the power of trust and I felt that my entire life and so, my father not only is my father but he was really the single greatest influence in my life and clearly on my professional work because of what I learned from him. But also what I experienced from him and I learned trust from my father in that I experienced it from him, he extended trust to me and that inspires. And it inspired me and so, I couldn't be more thankful for such an amazing blessing.
Peter: You know I love that story that you just told and that was in Seven Habits. And I love it and I want to delve a little more deeply into this and I'm going to just name it and then we're going to come back to it.
Stephen: Okay.
Peter: Which is this moment when you say he trusted me to do the lawn, I didn't do such a great job but he continued to trust me and I rose to the occasion. And I think that little snapshot is so indicative of the dilemma that so many of us face, which is someone disappoints us and that confirms for us the idea or maybe introduces to us the idea I can't trust this person. So now I'm going to have to do a whole bunch of things in order to make sure that my failures are not related to this person's failures. Like I just can't trust them.
And the point that you just made is really, really important and the challenge is how do we get over that feeling when someone disappoints us? To actually trust them enough for them to be able to rise to the occasion because there's some situations where we'll keep trusting them and we're fools because they continue to do things that end up losing our trust. But before I do that, before I get there that's just a place setter to make sure I get back. What is trust? How do you define trust?
Stephen: Okay, here's kinda a simple way of thinking about it. Trust is simply confidence. Confidence, that in many languages, trust and confidence are the exact same word. Like in Spanish, French, same word. In English, we have two words for it, so think in terms of confidence and it's a confidence that comes from having both character and competence. Both are vital and sometimes we only speak in terms, we kinda only think in terms of character to have trust. And you gotta have character, that's the foundation but you also need competence. And you have to deliver/perform because someone could be honest but not able to deliver.
Stephen: To perform, so I might trust them to watch my home or my apartment if I go on a vacation, right? Because they're honest but I might not trust them on the key project or the key client, the key deliverable if they don't have a track record of performing. So, I need to see the competence as well as the character and the combination of that creates a confidence that enables us to have trust. And so, that's kinda the simple definition: confidence.
Peter: That's a great two pronged question to be asking. Is there a difference between having confidence in someone and trusting them? Or are they really synonymous?
Stephen: The way I'm talking about it is kinda becomes the same. I will say this, the confidence implies a little bit more around the competence side. That they can deliver and sometimes the trust implies a little bit more around the character side but I'm trying to say it's really the same. True trust real, sustainable trust, smart trust has to gotta have both character and competence and not just the idea of someone's trustworthy meaning that they're honorable. But also, that they deliver, they perform, their current, their relevant, that's important too. And confidence sometimes conveys that a little bit stronger, so sometimes I use the term interchangeably but for my purposes, when I say trust I mean confidence.
Peter: Great. I love it. Now I want to delve into the specifics of the book but one more question. There is a phrase that was made famous by Ronald Reagan, focusing on nuclear disarmament with Russia that's always sort of bugged me and I've never really fully understood it but I wanted to ask you about it because I think it could shed light on what we mean by trust and I also want to learn as to whether I've been thinking about it as wrong.
You probably know what I'm talking about, but it's this sort of trust but verify. Right? I'm gonna trust but verify and I wonder if you could talk about whether that makes sense and whether that's a smart thing to do and whether the but verify discounts the trust or it doesn't discount the trust. What are your thoughts?
Stephen: Yeah, it's a great question that a lot of people have so let me just frame it this way. When I talk about trust, I'm really talking about a smart trust as opposed to a blind trust. See a blind trust is when the person just kind of indiscriminately trusts anyone and everyone and that's not very smart in today's world. Not everyone can be trusted or it's when people trust without expectations and without an agreed upon process for accountability and you can be too trusting in a low trust world and get burned.
But the other extreme, if blind trust is one extreme, the other extreme is distrust and suspicion characterized by the person that doesn't trust anyone. Or hardly anyone, maybe, because of the fact they can't trust some. And I've seen many people fall into the trap, that's probably the more common trap to fall into where people are afraid to trust people because maybe they've been burned before. And they say hey it's just too risky so I'm calling it smart trust, and in a sense there is an element of that trust but verify.
But I like how you already express it, I don't like the word but. Because the but negates everything in front of it so often what people say trust but verify, that's usually just an excuse to never trust anyone. It's not trusting at all and they're all verify, verify, verify they never started with trust but the premise behind the verify could be smart if it's a trust and verify.
So, for example, I'm gonna shortly get on a plane to go fly and when I get on that plane I'm hardly gonna think about the safety issue because I know there's an FAA and there's standards and rules of safety. And there's verification that's taking place because that verification does take place, it enables me to trust.
So because someone verifies it, I can now trust. What if there were no FAA? What if it were just all up to the airlines to do their own thing? There's no standards, no expectations and what if an airline were having a really lousy financial quarter? And doing that and they had to cut costs, it'd be very easy to cut maintenance wouldn't it? And to maybe not follow through?
Stephen: You've gotta be smart.
Peter: It almost seems like it's the reverse, it shouldn't be trust but verify or trust and verify it should be verify so I trust.
Stephen: Well, yes I would say in some situations when there's high risk like if you're getting on a plane that sometimes the verification enables people to trust. But I think in the work that you and I are doing and that our listeners are doing, the leadership work, people working in relationships and on teams and leading teams and leading change initiatives I really believe that as a starting point, starting with trust, giving trust, extending trust is probably a better starting point. As long as we have clear expectations of what we're trusting on and an agreed upon process for accountability, so that it's smart because let me tell you what it does.
By starting with trust, it brings out the best in people. And they rise to the occasion and they perform better and they also give the trust back to you. It generates a reciprocity, so my father back to the story because this kind of relates to the way you framed this, this trust but verify. My father he trusted me and I was a seven year old boy but here's the key thing, he had very clear expectations. I want the yard to be green and clean, clear expectations.
And those are results oriented words, green and clean. And then he also had an agreed upon process for accountability, which was that once a week we would walk around the yard and I would report back how we're doing against the criteria of green and clean. And so, in that process when I wasn't doing very good, he said why don't we walk around like we agreed we'd do once a week, it's that time now. And let's see how you're doing.
And that's when I kind of acknowledged that hey I'm not doing very good, dad and I need help, would you help me and he said sure, I'm your … I agreed I'd help you if I got time and I've got time. And it was from that moment that I realized he trusts me. And this is my job and he's gonna help me and so, I think it was a smart trust my dad gave me as a seven year old boy because he had clear expectations, and an agreed upon process for accountability. And if you start with that, I think the better starting point is to start with trust with your people.
Unless there's extreme risk, like an airplane or where the person's not ready for that much trust yet, you don't wanna set someone up to lose when you're trusting them too much on something with too great of risk. And not enough credibility yet, but by starting with trust you generate a reciprocity, you also inspire people to bring out the best in them and I think that most of our leaders need more trust, not less.
Peter: That's great. Stephen, if you could very briefly talk about the five waves of trust just to give a map for us and then we'll delve in.
Stephen: I just use a metaphor of a ripple effect, the drop water coming down, the ripples, the waves moving out and it starts with self trust. That's the first wave, if I trust myself. Do I give to my team? A leader they can trust. And then it ripples out to the next wave, relationship trust. One on one and then I ripple out to the next wave, which is team or group or organizational trust. Could be me as the CEO of the company, could be as the leader of the team. Then I ripple out to the next wave, which is market trust. That's my stakeholder trust. And then I ripple out to the next wave, which is societal trust. And my point is that you move from the inside out, that trust starts with yourself and then it ripples out.
It's hard to have trust with other people if you don't trust yourself. It's hard to have trust in a team if there's not trust in relationships, so moving inside out is a more sustainable and a better way to build trust than going outside in, which is saying hey I can't trust anyone. I don't trust them instead say hey I need to look in the mirror, do I give to them a partner that they can trust? Go inside out, it's a better approach.
Peter: So, the first wave self trust, you talk about these four cores of credibility: integrity, intent, capabilities and results. And that feels like it's an important place to start, which is do you trust yourself? How do you help people build these cores? Because they're challenging.Integrity, you would almost think is a yes or no but it's not, it's more complicated than that. And people struggle with the tension between what they want and how they want to show up and also what they want, and that's where integrity can get weak a little bit for people.
I'm curious to hear you talk about your experiences of developing this in people and some of the lessons you've learned around that.
Stephen: Yeah, it's a really great question because this is where it starts, in fact I'll never forget one time I was doing a seminar session on the speed of trust I presented the five ways, how trust has to be inside out. We have to start with ourselves and this guy came up to me at a break and said hey Stephen, this is really helpful because I think I see what's going on in my life.
And then he kinda acknowledged, he goes look I'm not happy with where I'm at. And I'm not where I thought I'd be in my career and I've always blamed everybody else, my whole life can't trust my boss. Can't trust the company, can't trust management. Then I go home to the community, can't trust my kids. Can't trust my neighbor, and then he goes I realize what my problem was. And then he kinda leaned in and whispered to me and he said I don't trust myself.
I don't trust myself and I realized that that distrust of self, I'm now projecting that out onto everybody else. So what do I do? Now you're key question, where do I start? And my answer was this very simple thing and it's tied to this integrity you mentioned and that is to learn to make and keep commitments to yourself. It's interesting, Peter, the fastest way to build trust with another person is to make that person a commitment and to keep it.
Make another commitment and keep it, repeat that process, make, keep, commit. Make, keep, repeat. Make, keep, repeat. You can build trust fast that way, but guess what? That's also the fastest way to build trust with yourself. Make yourself a commitment in the little things and keep it, and another and keep it in those small little things, that's integrity. That's clarity, that's power. And so, it is not easy. It's an ongoing process, we never fully arrive, we're always striving. But the sense of clarity, of integrity, of power starting with ourselves and the little things, the little commitments is where we begin.
That's the integrity, that's the roots of the tree. I talk about a tree, these four cores of credibility, the roots, the trunk, the branches, the fruits, those are the four things you said the integrity, the intent, the capabilities, the results. But you start with the roots, the integrity is trusting yourself and the key to that: learn to make and keep commitments to yourself.
I will just give as a side, I love this new book out, you maybe have seen it, by Admiral William McRaven former head of special operations for the military. He's the one that got Bin Laden, his team did and he wrote a book and it's simple, it's called Make Your Bed. Make Your Bed and the whole point is every day you can start out with a victory and with integrity, by just doing a simple act of making your bed.
And the whole idea is that that's one small commitment that you can keep, it's in your circle of influence, you can control it, you can do it every day, and by starting with that small thing it leads to other commitments that you keep. And that integrity that comes.
Peter: You know it's interesting because a lot of high performers have very high expectations of themselves and of others.Unreasonably high expectations, which actually allows them to hit the goal 60% of the time, which serves them in some ways. But what I'm also hearing you say is that it also erodes their trust in themselves and other people because they set a bar that they can't possibly reach and then their failure to reach it in some ways detracts from their belief or trust in their ability to follow through. Am I seeing this right?
Stephen: That absolutely can happen, and I wanna distinguish, Peter, between having high expectations and then the actual making of a commitment because like you say, high expectations is a good thing it brings out the best in us. We tend to rise or fall to the level of our expectations. So, having high expectations can be a good thing. Now, as we put that into a commitment, it's important that we don't … That we treat a commitment as real, as genuine, and so often with ourselves we throw out all kinds of things we never intend to do.
And then we don't do it. And what happens is that that does erode, our sense of self confidence and clarity. That I don't deliver, I don't perform to myself and so distinguish between expectations and commitments and keep commitments almost at all costs. Or at least communicate when you can't and yet at the same time, I'm not afraid to have good high expectations because that brings out the best in us. I just distinguish between the two but the important thing is to build a reputation, a brand with others and also with yourself that you do what you say you're going to do.
Peter: So it's actually like I'm hearing a distinction that I want to bring out because it feels important. Which is the distinction between process and results and that ultimately what I'm hearing you say is commit 100% to what you're going to do but don't necessarily commit 100% to the results that that's going to create. Because the result that that's going to create, the impact, it's the difference between intent and impact. The impact that you're going to have may not be entirely under your control.
But how you show up and what you do in order to create that impact is in your control and that you are 100% trustworthy if you are clear about and follow through on intent and what you agree to do. But be a little careful about the result that you're committing to because that may not be 100% in your control. I'm curious to have your reaction to that.
Stephen: Yeah, no I find many like that. I mean especially if you can't control the outcome, you can maybe influence it and so you then focus on what you can control. And you do commit to that and you give 100% but if you can't control the outcome, to then promise an outcome that you can't control and then not deliver on it you'll lose trust. With others and even with yourself. But what you can control when it's process oriented, that you deliver on that.
Now the more you can focus your activities and your process on outcomes, the better. But not everything is controllable, and you gotta … Sports, I coached a flag football team and my kids growing up, so I did this for 12 years every year and we always had six goals and we could actually control the first five. Which was that we were good sports, that we were team players, that we played hard, that we had fun, and that we learned something.
But the sixth goal was we're gonna compete to win. And we couldn't control for sure that we would win because there's another team-
Peter: No, the way you stated that you can totally control, which is, we're going to compete to win. You didn't say we're gonna win.
Stephen: We're gonna compete to win and we can control that.
Peter: If that sixth one was we're going to win, you can't control that. But you can control that you're going to compete to win.
Stephen: And that's why we framed it that way, compete to win.
Peter: Right, I love that.
Stephen: We can control that.
Peter: That feels really important. And also really important to have an outcome that you're focused on, but saying look I'm going to make 10 million dollars in sales next year and you can bank on it, I'm going to do it and then you fall short. Then you lose trust. But if you go, here are the things I'm going to do to create those sales, here are the things I'm going to commit to you and I'm going to keep you in track and I'm going to let you know how I am every month and then to follow through on all of those things, that creates trust.
Stephen: That creates trust and it creates trust with yourself first and that self trust creates relationship trust, inside out. That's truly the kinda core message of how trust is built and human nature tends to be outside in, we're waiting on everybody else, we're waiting on the boss, we're waiting on the peer or the colleague or the partner, the customer … To change, to be trustworthy and I'm saying create it from the inside out, trust yourself, give them a partner they can trust, extend trust to them smartly, and then begin to create it and move out.
Peter: Right. We're running out of time and I, Stephen, can talk for the next 10 hours and this would be really interesting and fun. At least for me, but-
Stephen: And for me-
Peter: So I want to touch on one element of the relationship trust.You've got 18 behaviors I think, 13 behaviors-
Stephen: 13.
Peter: 13, you have 13 behaviors. One of the behaviors was around transparency, it's behavior number 3. I think transparency's very hard for people and it's hard because it's emotionally challenging for people to be totally open and honest,et cetera. I'd love to hear you speak for a moment on ways in which, especially in business, we can create more transparency or overcome our emotional resistance to kind of putting out there what we might be embarrassed about or we might be worried might come back to us in a way that would hurt us. How do you build enough trust in order to then be transparent which creates trust in relationships?
Stephen: Yeah, it's interesting and I love the way you framed this because the relationship trust, the behavior is transparency but again we didn't start with relationship trust, we started with self trust. The higher self trust you have, the more credible you are, the more courage that gives you to be open, to be vulnerable, to be transparent. The more clout that gives you, the more influence it gives you, the more permission it gives you. But I know part of your work is around courage.
And emotional courage and the more clarity you have, the more integrity you have, that gives you more courage and to be vulnerable, to be open because you know who you are. And then you recognize this is how I build trust with others. I'm open, I'm transparent, there's nothing to hide here. I don't have a hidden agenda, I have an open agenda.
And it does take a risk to do that. And sometimes people might say gosh, that's too risky and I'm afraid to do that but we've gotta be working at the fringe of our circle of influence. And we've gotta challenge ourselves, be it the outside of our comfort zone, the fringe of our comfort zone.
Always pushing ourselves with openness, with vulnerability, the key to that is increasing your credibility, your self trust, it opens you up, it gives you the courage to do it, which is a big part of your work and mine as well. And so, that helps you become more transparent and I like to say that in a very practical sense, transparency is kind of just you're telling the truth in a way that people can see and verify for themselves.
And it's opening it up and so I use the expression don't operate with a hidden agenda, open your agenda. And you'd be amazed at what that does to build the mutual trust, the relationship trust in a relationship but the key to that: self trust. That gives you the courage to do just that.
Peter: That's really such a big takeaway from this conversation, which is how important it is to show up and be the kind of person that you trust. That that's the foundation of everything, I'm taking both from the conversation and now coloring the book, it's the integrity piece. And it's like if you have a gap of integrity to yourself that nobody else knows about, that probably does more damage to your ability to trust others and your own sense of your trustworthiness than anything else.
Stephen: I think so, I think as you were capturing a great key takeaway because the essence of my message is that trust is created from the inside out. And it requires our credibility and our behavior, but if we just focus on the behavior alone without that foundation of credibility those behaviors they could just become techniques. They could become manipulation, think of a con man. A con man is short for confidence man, right? And it's someone that's gonna try to earn your trust in order to deceive or hurt you later.
So they do the behavior, they maybe talk straight and they deliver and you're starting to say yeah I can trust this person. But look, they don't have that integrity, they don't have that credibility at the foundation so the behavior helps earn your trust. But then they deceive you because they're not integrated, they're not congruent. So that behavior becomes a manipulation technique, a tool, and in the long run you won't sustain the trust that way.
But when you behave in ways that build trust, built on that first starting foundation of credibility, personal credibility, trusting yourself, your character, your competence, those are equals. Character and competence, but character is first among equals. And that's the integrity base, the roots, the foundation, trusting yourself and the courage, which is so much a part of your work.
I believe this that the reason it takes courage to have integrity is because it's relatively easy to have integrity when there's not a cost or a consequence to it. It's easy for me to do the right thing when it doesn't cost me anything. Ah-ha! The test of integrity is when there's a cost or a consequence, what do I do then? That's my test and until then I haven't fully been tested. That takes courage. That courage creates integrity, clarity, power, that power becomes then a foundation of credibility, of self trust, which then extends and ripples out to build all kinds of other trusts.
And yes there's other things we've gotta do, so it's not sufficient to just do that but it always is the starting point and I'm thrilled that that's kinda the key idea and takeaway you're getting.
Peter: I'm thrilled with how you rift off of it because it's really inspiring and so true and I've learned a lot. The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything. Stephen M. R. Covey I can see why your father was so proud of you. And I'm so appreciative that you have continued in the lineage of really helping us to show up in a way that we can be proud of ourselves and we can accomplish the kinds of things we want to and have the kinds of relationships that we want to ultimately, which is what is more important. Stephen, thank you so much for being on the Bregman leadership podcast.
Stephen: Oh thank you so much, Peter. I'm really honored, glad to be here and I'll conclude with just this thought. I believe this that the very first job of a leader is to inspire trust. And we do that through our credibility and our behavior, and the second job of a leader is to extend trust. But it happens in that order, we first inspire it through who we are we then extend it through our behavior.
Peter: That's great, thank you so much for being here with us.
Stephen: Thank you, Peter.
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Caroline Mawer says:
Hi Peter! I've been reading and listening to and learning from your very excellent podcasts for some long time now. Thankyou so much for sharing such great things! I wanted to comment this week that it was because I trust you that, a few months ago, after I heard you talking to Emily Fletcher, I investigated her Ziva Online course in more detail. It looked good on line. But the clincher for me was you and how you talked with her, and my trust in you. And you were right! Thankyou! I know its a big thankyou to Emily too, but – like I said – the clincher for me to try Ziva was my trust in you! I've completed the Ziva online course recently, and I think its had a big positive impact on my life. I'm still not 100% sure I'm doing the meditating right, but Emily is clear that you meditate to get better at life – not to get better at meditation! So thats all good! I've always read and thought a bit about your podcasts. But now I think I'm maybe more able to get even more out of them. After various not-so-positive events in my life, I was just thinking how I need to get back to trusting myself more. So, very fortuitously, whats in this weeks podcast … but some great ideas on that. I really hope (and you must surely know!) how valuable and thought provoking and generally wonderful your podcasts are! THANKYOU!
Peter Bregman says:
Hi Caroline – thanks so much for sharing and I'm delighted that the meditations are valuable to you – I'm still doing them 2X a day. And thank you for your trust in me – that means A LOT to me. I forwarded your email to Emily and wanted to share her response which I thought you would enjoy:
Thank you so much for sharing this. Makes my day.
So funny how people are convinced they are meditating wrong. Probably because of that dude telling everyone to clear their mind ;-)
Thanks again! Peter
Berna Cantwell says:
I've just started a new job and I am part of a great team of people so your podcast is a great way for me to take some of the advice and put it into practice- really enjoyed the discussion
Thanks for letting em know! Good luck with the new job!
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