Caroline Adams Miller
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Podcast Appearances
The other half was stuff like how to protect your ears as you get older, just random stuff that people know about investment ideas, how to protect your heart health because somebody had a heart incident. So they learned and we're sharing wisdom and best practices with each other. So there's some intentional time around our time together.
But it struck me as we were together and literally they just went home Monday. They just went outside. They went home Tuesday morning. So just yesterday, as we record this, it struck me as to how much the intentional time and the little lectures were really great, but how fulfilled we all were and full from the encouragement that you get from just being with each other. We tend to eat healthy.
But it struck me as we were together and literally they just went home Monday. They just went outside. They went home Tuesday morning. So just yesterday, as we record this, it struck me as to how much the intentional time and the little lectures were really great, but how fulfilled we all were and full from the encouragement that you get from just being with each other. We tend to eat healthy.
But it struck me as we were together and literally they just went home Monday. They just went outside. They went home Tuesday morning. So just yesterday, as we record this, it struck me as to how much the intentional time and the little lectures were really great, but how fulfilled we all were and full from the encouragement that you get from just being with each other. We tend to eat healthy.
We know that we're supposed to eat healthy. We know that we're supposed to exercise and move our bodies. We know that we're supposed to stretch or we'll lose our flexibility. You're also supposed to spend time with people. And when you don't spend time with people, you atrophy in many ways. And one, let me just paint a dangerous picture of loneliness. Now, let me give you a lot of hope.
We know that we're supposed to eat healthy. We know that we're supposed to exercise and move our bodies. We know that we're supposed to stretch or we'll lose our flexibility. You're also supposed to spend time with people. And when you don't spend time with people, you atrophy in many ways. And one, let me just paint a dangerous picture of loneliness. Now, let me give you a lot of hope.
We know that we're supposed to eat healthy. We know that we're supposed to exercise and move our bodies. We know that we're supposed to stretch or we'll lose our flexibility. You're also supposed to spend time with people. And when you don't spend time with people, you atrophy in many ways. And one, let me just paint a dangerous picture of loneliness. Now, let me give you a lot of hope.
A lot of people are looking to join a community. I would encourage you to do that if you want to, but I would encourage you even stronger to create one. Actually just create a community. You invite six or seven people to breakfast once a month, and then you understand how it works.
A lot of people are looking to join a community. I would encourage you to do that if you want to, but I would encourage you even stronger to create one. Actually just create a community. You invite six or seven people to breakfast once a month, and then you understand how it works.
A lot of people are looking to join a community. I would encourage you to do that if you want to, but I would encourage you even stronger to create one. Actually just create a community. You invite six or seven people to breakfast once a month, and then you understand how it works.
If you invite six or seven people to breakfast every month, probably two years later, you're going to have six or seven people having breakfast, and none of them will be in the first group. They will be people who heard about it, came. But it takes a minute to dial in who those people are going to be. And it takes, I believe, in the rule of three.
If you invite six or seven people to breakfast every month, probably two years later, you're going to have six or seven people having breakfast, and none of them will be in the first group. They will be people who heard about it, came. But it takes a minute to dial in who those people are going to be. And it takes, I believe, in the rule of three.
If you invite six or seven people to breakfast every month, probably two years later, you're going to have six or seven people having breakfast, and none of them will be in the first group. They will be people who heard about it, came. But it takes a minute to dial in who those people are going to be. And it takes, I believe, in the rule of three.
It takes three of those meetings for people to feel comfortable, and three years of those meetings for people to actually bond. And so you have to stay at it for a long period of time. I actually went to, that's my community. We call ourselves the Lions. I went to a friend of mine who was taking a year off as a pastor.
It takes three of those meetings for people to feel comfortable, and three years of those meetings for people to actually bond. And so you have to stay at it for a long period of time. I actually went to, that's my community. We call ourselves the Lions. I went to a friend of mine who was taking a year off as a pastor.
It takes three of those meetings for people to feel comfortable, and three years of those meetings for people to actually bond. And so you have to stay at it for a long period of time. I actually went to, that's my community. We call ourselves the Lions. I went to a friend of mine who was taking a year off as a pastor.
And he was a pastor of a very large church, taking a year off before he maybe moved to another church or something like that. Wanted to get a sabbatical in. And I went to him and I said, I will give you $10,000. If you create a group of men who get together once or twice a month, I will pay $10,000 to be one of those men. And he was like, are you being serious? I go, yes.
And he was a pastor of a very large church, taking a year off before he maybe moved to another church or something like that. Wanted to get a sabbatical in. And I went to him and I said, I will give you $10,000. If you create a group of men who get together once or twice a month, I will pay $10,000 to be one of those men. And he was like, are you being serious? I go, yes.
And he was a pastor of a very large church, taking a year off before he maybe moved to another church or something like that. Wanted to get a sabbatical in. And I went to him and I said, I will give you $10,000. If you create a group of men who get together once or twice a month, I will pay $10,000 to be one of those men. And he was like, are you being serious? I go, yes.
And I think there's many other men who would do it. Three months later, he launched the Sycamore Society, which was 35 men, each paying $10,000 just to get together. And the first meeting was awkward. The second meeting was less awkward. The third meeting was great. And we've been doing it almost a year, and he's not going to go back to pastoring, I don't think.