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Legacy Leadership: Honoring Dr. King | Episode #430 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria. Gloria Burgess, international
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  Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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  Speaker 1: your Life Count. I am so delighted that you joined
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  Speaker 1: me today. I want to give a big thank you
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  Speaker 1: to those of you who are listening, and here's a
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  Speaker 1: great big shout out to all of you listening around
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'm delighted and so grateful that you tuned in.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope you're enjoying a fabulous day today and
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  Speaker 1: that you're having a fantastic week, because you know what,
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  Speaker 1: in the grand song of the universe, life is very
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  Speaker 1: very short. It's short, sweet and very precious. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope you're making a difference in your own life because
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  Speaker 1: when you do, you also make a difference in somebody
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  Speaker 1: else's life. Now, a lot of folks want to make
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  Speaker 1: their life count for something, and they ask me, doctor Gloria,
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  Speaker 1: how do you do that? Well, it's very simple, very simple.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how I do it. I make my life count
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  Speaker 1: as a daughter, as a wife, mom, sister, and in
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  Speaker 1: my professional life as a leadership expert, as a speaker, coach, professor,
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  Speaker 1: as a mentor. I make my life count by being
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  Speaker 1: on purpose, by living, learning and serving every single day
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  Speaker 1: three sixty five, twenty four seven. See it's pretty simple, right,
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  Speaker 1: You can do it too. You can make your life
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  Speaker 1: count day by day, step by step, moment by moment,
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Three sixty five, twenty four seven. That's
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  Speaker 1: what legacy living, Make your Life count is all about.
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  Speaker 1: You can learn more about legacy living make your life
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  Speaker 1: count by visiting the Gloria Burgess website. That's right, the
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess website, or you can visit me on Facebook
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  Speaker 1: dot com at doctor Gloria Burgess pH D. Okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: well today I have a very special show for you.
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  Speaker 1: Today's podcast is all about serving. Specifically, I will focus
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  Speaker 1: on celebrating on lifting up service because you know what
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  Speaker 1: everybody can serve. Now, if you are a regular listener
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  Speaker 1: to this podcast, you know that serving and being of
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  Speaker 1: service is one of the great ideas we talk about here,
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  Speaker 1: not just once in a while, but every single podcast.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what legacy living is really all about. Right,
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  Speaker 1: It's making a difference in your own life and making
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  Speaker 1: your life count. In other words, serving others, making your
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  Speaker 1: life count for others. Legacy Living is all about living, loving,
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  Speaker 1: and serving every single day. You've heard me say it before,
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  Speaker 1: we do it three sixty five, twenty four seven. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what. That's exactly how Reverend doctor Martin Luther
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  Speaker 1: King Junior lived his life, living, loving, and serving. Now
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  Speaker 1: doctor King served three sixty five twenty four seven. How
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  Speaker 1: did he do that even while he was asleep? Listen
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  Speaker 1: up today. I want to shine the light on serving.
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  Speaker 1: Shine the light on serving by looking through the lens
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  Speaker 1: of what doctor King calls the drum major instinct. I
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  Speaker 1: love that, the drum major instinct. Before we dive into
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  Speaker 1: the podcast, I want to take a moment to welcome you.
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  Speaker 1: If you're just joining us, I'm your host, Doctor Gloria,
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  Speaker 1: and this is Legacy Living. Make your life count. I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to extend a special welcome to those of you
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  Speaker 1: who are joining my podcast or if you're joining Talk
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  Speaker 1: Network Radio for the very first time. I'm so excited
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  Speaker 1: to have you listening in today, and I'm deeply honored
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  Speaker 1: that you've allowed me to be part of your day
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  Speaker 1: so you can be inspired by ideas and resources to
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  Speaker 1: make your life count. You are in for a very
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  Speaker 1: special treat. As I mentioned earlier, today's episode is all
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  Speaker 1: about serving. You don't want to miss a single word
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  Speaker 1: of this podcast. So grab your earbuds or find yourself
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  Speaker 1: a comfortable chair, grab yourself a nice cool glass of
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  Speaker 1: water or a cup of tea or coffee. We are
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  Speaker 1: going to have a great time. Now again, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to shine the light on serving of being of service
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  Speaker 1: by looking through the lens of what Doctor King calls
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  Speaker 1: the drum major instinct. In fact, Doctor King delivered a
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  Speaker 1: sermon called the drum major instinct. Now some of you
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  Speaker 1: may know that he delivered this important sermon towards the
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  Speaker 1: very end of his life, and this sermon is all
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  Speaker 1: about That's right, you guessed it. It's all about serving. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what does serving and being a drum major have in common.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, isn't it. Well, let's look at
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  Speaker 1: what it means and what it takes to be a
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  Speaker 1: drum major. Have any of you ever seen a marching band. Well,
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  Speaker 1: one of the two leaders of the marching band is
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  Speaker 1: the drum major. If you've ever seen a pipe band
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  Speaker 1: or a drum and bugle corps, the leader of these
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  Speaker 1: groups is also called a drum major. Now I want
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  Speaker 1: you to picture this. The drum major is usually positioned
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  Speaker 1: at the very head, at the very front of the
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  Speaker 1: marching band, or at the front or the head of
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  Speaker 1: the drum and bugle corps. Now, maybe some of you
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  Speaker 1: have been part of a marching band or a pipe band,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps you've been a musician as a member of
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  Speaker 1: a drum and bugle corps. I certainly have. I remember
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  Speaker 1: when I was in my high school marching band, I
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  Speaker 1: played the saxophone. And I also remember we had these
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  Speaker 1: wonderful uniforms. Our school colors were green and gold, and
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  Speaker 1: our uniforms were this beautiful dark green with gold corded trim.
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  Speaker 1: On the shoulders, we had wonderful white helmets that we
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  Speaker 1: wore that set up on top of our head very high, right,
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  Speaker 1: so you felt very tall and regal. And on top
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  Speaker 1: of that that helmet was a beautiful feather in green
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  Speaker 1: and gold. And on the bottom of our uniform we
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  Speaker 1: wore white spats on top of our black shoes. And
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  Speaker 1: to top it off, we wore those shimmery gold overlays
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a long vest that we wore outside
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  Speaker 1: of our jacket. We looked sharp. I'm gonna say snazzy.
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  Speaker 1: We looked so so wonderful. We thought we looked actually fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what we did, now, the drum major,
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  Speaker 1: the drum major always looked very snazzy too. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: the drum major's outfit was even snazzier than the band members. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it was the same green and gold, but the gold
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  Speaker 1: corded trim was much more ornate and thicker. Right, it
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  Speaker 1: had more ribbon, a bigger braid in the cord, and
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  Speaker 1: more core words actually draped down over the shoulders. I
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  Speaker 1: remember that the drum major also had a shorter jacket
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  Speaker 1: than we wore as members of the marching band. The
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  Speaker 1: drum major's jacket was white so that we could easily
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  Speaker 1: see him or her right, And instead of black shoes,
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  Speaker 1: the drum major wore black boots. Yeah, that's right, black boots,
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  Speaker 1: boots that were knee high and very very impressive looking. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the drum major also carried a baton, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: baton that you see gymnasts use, the kind that you
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  Speaker 1: whirl around, right, And the drum major wore a whistle
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  Speaker 1: around the neck. Now, why the baton and the whistle, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the drum major was the person who provided the commands
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  Speaker 1: to the band. The drum major was also the person
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  Speaker 1: responsible for leading the band while we were marching. The
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  Speaker 1: drum major set the rhythm, the tempo for our march right,
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  Speaker 1: and the tempo for the music we played. The drum
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  Speaker 1: major would use the whistle to signal the tempo. I remember,
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  Speaker 1: tweet tweet, tweet, tweet right, and he or she held
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  Speaker 1: the baton way up high, right, pumping, pumping his or
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  Speaker 1: her arm to amplify the tweeting, to amplify that whistle.
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  Speaker 1: The drum major of that marching band was a servant
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  Speaker 1: leader of the entire ensemble, the entire I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: We had multiple, multiple ranks of marchers, of musicians and
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  Speaker 1: our marching band. So all that ornate clothing and the
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  Speaker 1: baton held high, and the whistle tweets, all of that
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  Speaker 1: served a purpose, a very specific purpose. The drum major
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  Speaker 1: served so that all could see, so that all were touched,
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  Speaker 1: so that all were moved quite literally in the same direction.
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  Speaker 1: So Doctor King's sermon about the drum major instinct is
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  Speaker 1: all about serving just like that drum major of the
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  Speaker 1: marching band. Doctor King's sermon is all about being of service,
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  Speaker 1: all about being a servant leader. As I listened to
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  Speaker 1: Doctor King delivered that sermon, there were so many many
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  Speaker 1: lessons in it that I wanted to share with you.
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  Speaker 1: Then I realized I could probably do a whole year's
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  Speaker 1: worth of episodes, a whole year's worth of podcasts on
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  Speaker 1: that one sermon alone. Imagine that, right, But I knew
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  Speaker 1: I needed to focus on just one thing for this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and again, that is serving. In his sermon, Doctor King
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  Speaker 1: talks about the drum major instinct, and he says that
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we all have it, right. We don't
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  Speaker 1: need those fancy green uniforms. We don't need that gold
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  Speaker 1: overlay or that white hat with the green and gold
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  Speaker 1: feathers of the baton. We all have it. Whoever we are,
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  Speaker 1: wherever we are. This instinct shows up in our desire
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  Speaker 1: to be recognized, our desire to have someone call our name,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak. This is our desire for importance or significance.
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  Speaker 1: In scripture, in the Gospel of Matthew, the Disciples, James
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  Speaker 1: and John make a specific request of the Mass. Like
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  Speaker 1: many Hebrews before them, James and John dreamed of a
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  Speaker 1: coming king of Israel. This coming king would set Jerusalem free.
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  Speaker 1: This coming king would establish his kingdom on Mount Zion.
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  Speaker 1: This coming king would rule in righteousness. Indeed, this king
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  Speaker 1: would rule the world. James and John actually thought of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as this kind of king. And James and John
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  Speaker 1: said to Jesus, now, when you establish your kingdom, let
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  Speaker 1: one of us sit on the right hand and the
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  Speaker 1: other on the left hand of your throne. We are
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  Speaker 1: told that the other disciples were upset. They became angry
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  Speaker 1: with James and John. Now why did the disciples get mad?
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  Speaker 1: Because just like James and John, they also wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be up close and personal with King Jesus. Like James
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  Speaker 1: and John, they also wanted to sit at the right
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  Speaker 1: and left hand. Like James and John, they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: have a seat right next to the throne of the king.
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  Speaker 1: Can I just tell you something. All of us are
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  Speaker 1: like those disciples. We all want attention. We all want
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  Speaker 1: to be first, We all want to be the favorite.
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  Speaker 1: That desire for attention, that desire to be first, that
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  Speaker 1: desire to be important, to be recognized, that desire to
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  Speaker 1: lead the that desire is what doctor King refers to
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  Speaker 1: as the drum major instinct. In his sermon, doctor King
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  Speaker 1: also cautions us. That's right, he warns us. He cautions us.
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  Speaker 1: He actually beckons us to harness this instinct. He pleads
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  Speaker 1: with us to harness, to put the halt on this instinct.
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  Speaker 1: Why because if we don't harness the instinct to be noticed,
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  Speaker 1: to be recognized, to get attention, to feel important. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't harness this instinct, it is very easy to
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  Speaker 1: fall into the trap of pushing others down in order
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  Speaker 1: to lift ourselves up, or to fall into the trap
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  Speaker 1: of feeling important because you belong right to this exclusive
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  Speaker 1: club or that exclusive club, or that exclusive church, or
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  Speaker 1: go to that exclusive school, or you belong to that
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  Speaker 1: exclusive golf club or women's group or men's group or neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: or the kind of car you drive or you wear
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  Speaker 1: that particular brand of clothing or shoes. Right you could
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  Speaker 1: only carry that particular kind of briefcase, or have that
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  Speaker 1: particular kind of computer or whatever. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about, don't you. I mean, the list goes on
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  Speaker 1: and on and on, doesn't it. In this sermon, Doctor
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  Speaker 1: King reminds us that we all, we all have a
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  Speaker 1: common father, that all women are sisters, and all men
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  Speaker 1: are brothers because we all have a common father. So
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  Speaker 1: he shows that the desire, the drive, the motive to
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  Speaker 1: serve can actually become distorted, right. We can misuse it.
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  Speaker 1: We can misuse our desire to serve ourselves instead of
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  Speaker 1: serving others. Doctor King also reminds us that when we
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  Speaker 1: nurture this instinct, that it can be an incredibly rich resource,
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  Speaker 1: a very powerful resource that you can use, that I
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  Speaker 1: can use, that all of us can tap into, tap
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  Speaker 1: into our greatness. In that sermon, doctor King reminds us
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus confronts his disciples James and John, on their
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  Speaker 1: instinct to be first, on their desire to be recognized,
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  Speaker 1: their desire to be on the right hand and left hand.
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  Speaker 1: We know, we know that what Jesus did was radical.
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  Speaker 1: It was positively radical. Like he does so many times,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus turned things upside down. Doctor King says that what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did was all together different. He that is, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: in substance, Oh, I see, you want to be first,
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  Speaker 1: You want to be great, you want to be important,
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  Speaker 1: to be significant. Well, you ought to be. If you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be my disciple, you must be. But he
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  Speaker 1: reordered priorities. And he said, yes, don't give up this instinct.
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  Speaker 1: It's a good instinct if you use it right. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's a good instinct if you don't distort it and
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  Speaker 1: pervert it. Don't give up. Keep feeling the need for
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  Speaker 1: being important, keep feeling the need for being first. But
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  Speaker 1: but Jesus said, I want you to be first in love.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be first in moral excellence. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to be first in generosity. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I want you to do. And so my favorite book
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  Speaker 1: tells us that Jesus was radical because he spoke to
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  Speaker 1: his beloved disciples. Doctor King says that Jesus transformed the
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  Speaker 1: situation by giving a new definition of greatness. And you
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  Speaker 1: know how he said it. Here's what he said. Now, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I can't give you greatness, and really I can't make
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  Speaker 1: you first. This is what Jesus said to James and John.
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  Speaker 1: You must earn it. True greatness comes not by favoritism,
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  Speaker 1: but by fitness. And the right hand and the left
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  Speaker 1: are not mine to give. They belong to those who
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  Speaker 1: are prepared. And so Jesus gave us a new norm
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  Speaker 1: of greatness. If you want to be important, wonderful. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to be recognized wonderful, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: be great, wonderful, but recognize that he who is greatest
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  Speaker 1: among you shall be your servant. That's a whole new
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  Speaker 1: definition of greatness. And the thing I like about it.
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  Speaker 1: By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody,
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  Speaker 1: everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to have a college degree to serve. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics
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  Speaker 1: and physics. To serve, you only need a heart full
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  Speaker 1: of grace, a soul generated by love. And you, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: you and me, and you can be that servant. You
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  Speaker 1: only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated
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  Speaker 1: by love, and you can be that servant. So now
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  Speaker 1: you know the secret, the secret to serving and serving well.
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  Speaker 1: You don't serve to get attention or to be recognized
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  Speaker 1: or to be first. Oh No, you serve because that's
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  Speaker 1: what being in his purpose for your life is all
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  Speaker 1: about beyond purpose in His purpose for your life. That's
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  Speaker 1: how I strive to live my life as a daughter
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  Speaker 1: of the Most High. That's how I want to live
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  Speaker 1: my life. Do I get it right all the time?
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  Speaker 1: No way. Just ask my husband or my daughter or
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  Speaker 1: my sisters. All right. But one of the reasons I
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  Speaker 1: just love doing this podcast is that it helps me
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  Speaker 1: remember who I am and whose I am. It helps
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  Speaker 1: me remember who and what is important. It helps me
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  Speaker 1: remember that if you want to transform your relationships or
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  Speaker 1: your family, or your friendships, or your team at work,
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  Speaker 1: or your organization or your community, guess what you first
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  Speaker 1: have to transform you? You have to transform yourself, just
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  Speaker 1: as we learn today. One of the best ways to
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  Speaker 1: do that is by serving. I want you to ask
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  Speaker 1: yourself this question, how am I serving today? Am I
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  Speaker 1: serving myself? Or am I serving others? Am I truly
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  Speaker 1: serving others? All right? We are here for just a
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  Speaker 1: me there. Once again, I want to thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining me for today's episode. I'm your host, doctor Gloria
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess, and this is Legacy Living. Make your Life Count.
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  Speaker 1: Please join me again next time right here for another podcast,
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  Speaker 1: another show of Legacy Living. Make your life count. Don't
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  Speaker 1: in your life count. That's what Legacy Living is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Have a fantastic day, and remember, make the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life count. God bless you. That's our show today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll
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  Speaker 1: join me again next time. Until then, don't just count
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  Speaker 1: the days in your life. Make the days in your
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  Speaker 1: life count. That's what legacy living is all about. Here's
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  Speaker 1: to you have a fantastic day and be sure to
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  Speaker 1: make it a yes kind the day. Remember to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the music of your life. Make the days in your
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