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How to Stretch Yourself to Become Your Best
Category: Kids & family
Duration: 00:38:00
Publish Date: 2017-12-14 03:00:00
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How to Stretch Yourself to Become Your Best

This week I'm delighted to have Jon Stolpe on the show.

We discuss:

  • How we connected. 
  • Why STRETCH is such an important term in Jon's life.
  • He's helping men around the country help improve their commitment to fatherhood, family, faith, and work challenges.  See the Stretched Men Group for more info.
  • How Jon first got to Guatemala.
  • The big confirmation that allowed him to go there.
  • Jon and his blog audience brought the finances available to build houses.
  • His book, Rooftop Reflections.
  • How the book, Wrecked, for something good, as Jeff Goins described.
  • The socio-economic status of families in the Guatemalan culture.  How widows struggle amidst the situation.
  • They have built multiple homes in Guatemala to help families of widows in Guatemala. 
  • Jon's vision to build 100 houses in Guatemala before he passes away. 
  • The next step in his journey to impact families and involve the community in the process.
  • What Jon and his family would like from you.
  • How much it costs just to build one house for a family in Guatemala.
  • The life change his family experienced through this.
  • Jon & his wife chose to sell their home to have more margin in their lives to live, give, and save.
  • How they have chosen to live differently to make a greater contribution.
  • "Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone,"  Andy Stanley.
  • "You can be extraordinary right where you live with the people you rub shoulders with every day."
  • Do a little better.  Stretch yourself.  Make an impact.
  • How difficult it is to translate what that experience was like.
  • The Hobbit's parallel and how hard it is to come back to regular life.
  • You are not ordinary.  You have an amazing opportunity right in front of your eyes.  You can change the world for someone else and yourself.
  • Do something today. Cause yourself to stretch.  Become your best.
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