Andrew Funk, the host of the Royal Path Podcast, joins Perpend and I to talk about Thriving in the Ordinary and Mundane.

First a definition:

mun·dane

1. lacking interest or excitement; dull.

2. of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one. "the boundaries of the mundane world"

"Are you for real or are you going through the motions?" - Kansas lyric from "Going Through the Motions" on the Drastic Measures album (1983).

• The dog days of summer are still here. Not much is happening. I hate summer. I wish it away. I am always wishing for Fall and Winter to come. But by doing so I am not Being Present, living in the Now. I'm "wishing my life away."
• Living in the Ordinary Time
• Living in the mundane is a form of asceticism. It is a resetting on one's self.
• Andrew works in addiction Recovery, and one of the hardest things to get used to when recovering from addiction is getting used to going back to the boring, mundane, ordinary things in life.
• People aren't having real conversations, or listening to the other person when having conversations. They retreat into their phone and their own little world. Don't be like that, resist retreating. When someone has a mundane conversation, like the weather, do you tune them out? If you listen then they will often get to the real story and go deeper.

Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/ordinary-time

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