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Tim Ewell

I think at one point or another in our lives we can relate to the fact that parts of our life did not quite go the way we thought they would.

Just know that life's moments and milestones are all part of this journey of life. Despite our best efforts and work towards our goals sometimes they do not work out for one reason or another. I think our success in life is determined by how we recover from these times.



In my new book Gift: Living Inside Out Chapter 13 Finding Meaning in It All. I cover these types of life circumstances. Life can throw us curve balls from time to time. Learning how to react and move forward in these times is crucial to living a productive and meaningful life. Having a positive attitude helps keep you in motion and helps you to stay nimble while bobbing and weaving in the boxing ring of life.

I have found in my life's journey that if something that I am pursuing feels as though I am forcing it and it seems like it is just not coming easy for me, I use that as a warning that this may not be meant to be in my life. It seems when my path moves with ease, and everything falls into place that is usually a good sign that this is a good area for me to pursue. 

Learn from the tough times and move forward with the knowledge and wisdom gained for your future life. When you are going through a tough time or through something that you did not see coming, don't just GO through it GROW through it. These times are not times of feeling like a victim. These times can be periods of tremendous growth and better you as a person. Having experienced life on both spectrums will give you an advantage moving forward. These times teach us humility and grace. These tough times along with the good times will provide you with confidence moving forward in your life.

None of us goes through life without struggle or failure to some degree. These times in life balance our life experience. They say life's a journey. These times that don't go as planned help "get you through" down the road in your life.

When you go through life with this mindset, you will learn from the tough times and live your best times with a deeper more appreciative level filled with love and gratitude.

For believers we know it is not our path, it is His path that we fulfill in life. He will always make a way when it seems there is no way.

"And we know that all that happens to us is working for our good if we love God and are fitting into his plans." (Romans 8:28 TLB)



 www.timlivigninsideout.com

Living Inside Out is a way of living that I discovered while fighting for my life through some very serious medical situations. Through my inspirational stories of life restoration and healing, I decided to share my insight and techniques for surviving life's tough life seasons we'll all face at one point or another in our lifetimes. I am just a regular guy that has survived and thrived through some extraordinary life or death situations. 
I have decided to create a website, write books, make videos, speak in public along with many other ways to get my stories of healing and restoration out into the world. My stories, life lessons and techniques will help you and others not only in the tough life seasons, but how to live with more gratitude, appreciation, and faith in the good life seasons.My hope is that you'll learn how to live your life better from the inside out as well and that you'll share my stories with others to help them through this journey of life we're all on together.
God Bless, Tim Ewell
Click on this link to hear my podcast What is Living Inside Out?What is Living Inside Out?

When Life Knocks You Down, Get Up!
At some point in our life, we'll all face a tough life season, something that we didn't see coming, something that blindsides us on our life's path. 
My story of living through a life-threatening kidney disease and kidney transplant provides a foundation for which I learned my four stand-up life points:Find your reason or Why?BeleiveGet informedNever quit

Using this list correctly can help you greatly getting back up on your feet when life tries to knock you down. This podcast is based on my book Gift: Living Inside Out.
Click on this link to hear this podcast.Tim's Podcast " When Life Knocks You Down, Get Up!"

     One ordinary Friday afternoon my life changed forever. When I was diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease at the age of 23, I felt my life was over as I knew it. Having being diagnosed with an incurable life-threatening disease is a serious matter. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and wanted to rewind my life to earlier that morning when my life was full of hope for the future.

     How do you think you would handle a situation like I was in? It was a surreal time, and I felt sorrowful, disconnected and alone upon hearing the news.

     When we receive what seems to be devastating life news, we have a choice moving forward. Will we allow it to consume us or will we stand up and allow the state of mind that nothing is going to stop me, and I'll do whatever I can to overcome this situation.

     After a few days of feeling sorry for myself and asking why me, something down deep reared up and said not me, not today not ever! I became a focused man mentally moving forward in the direction of healing and restoration even in the face of an incurable disease.

     It was at that moment that I learned to find the light in my situation. I go into this in much greater detail in my new book Gift, Living Inside Out. I thought that if we can find a way to control some aspect of what was going on in my body that I would in a way feel as though I was in control of my destiny and able to fight for it.

     Though my renal function was slowly deteriorating, I could help slow the course of destruction by exercise, keeping my blood pressure in check and watching my dietary intake.

     Finding a way to control event the smallest part of a life problem will give you a sense of stability and confidence working through the challenge.

     Find ways to become a victor not a victim over your situation. Our minds are more powerful that we know. Allow radical thinking to happen. I would visualize myself healed and healthy. Though I would need a kidney transplant or renal dialysis in the future to sustain my life I didn't let those options get me down. I allowed my mind to stay positive about the situation. Whenever a negative or doom and gloom thought would enter into my thoughts, I would use it as a trigger to cancel it out with a positive one.

      I believe the choice I made way back when to find the light in my situation and step up and not be a victim saved my life. I also believe that I mentally enabled healing to occur in my body. I know that I was open to overcoming my situation somehow some way even when it seemed there wasn't a way.

      What happened during my journey fighting for my life was an incredible set of life-saving lessons that I learned from the inside out and helped me in all I do in life moving forward.

     "In all you do in life do your best to stay positive, grateful, thankful and helpful to others these are core to what it means to live inside out."

Please check out my book Gift, Living Inside Out, it will help you navigate your challenging life seasons and also help you appreciate at a deeper level the good life seasons at a more gratifying deeper level.

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God Bless.
Tim Ewell

The Healing Power of Our Words Are You unknowingly Blocking Your Success in Life?
In my new book Triumph, one of the chapters covers something that I think may happen to a lot of us. In our life journey we unintentionally block out certain area's of growth or goals in our life because of seeing only the current situation and not rising above what seems to be the current normality at that time. 
Let me give you an example: When I was recovering from a catastrophic head injury, I was not physically and mentally progressing at the pace my medical team though I should be. I was supposed to be in the Intensive Care Unit for 3 days...23 days later I was loosing my faith, joy along with my hope for a recovery.  Other ICU patients were dying in nearby rooms. I would hear families cry and whale in sadness when they lost  their family member. This was a very unnerving and tough time in my life. I was beginning to think I wouldn't make it out alive or even resume a normal life again.
Looking back now fully recovered, I ask myself how did I make it out of that dooming time? I believe it was what a physical therapist said to me on my first day of PT. While on a balance beam being held and guided by my physical therapist, we were working to get the left side of my body working again. Not able to stand up on my own being held by the physical therapist, I was hunched over and struggling to stand upright on the beam shaking with weakness broken but determined.

I was asked by the physical therapist to move my left leg onto the balance beam and I just wasn't able to do that. I tried so hard, but my brain couldn't communicate with my let correctly yet. As tried and tried, I gave it everything I had and it still wasn't enough, it didn't work. At that moment I thought to myself, my body isn't ever going to be the same again. thoughts like, will my wife, family and friends ever accept me this way? Could I accept me this way? So many questions in a very low point in my life.

Just then, in this moment, my physical therapist knelt down in front of me and raised my chin with her hand looked into my eyes of broken defeat and said, "Tim! This isn't you right now!" "You will recover!" "We'll work on this." "When you fully recover please come back and visit me so I can meet the real Tim Ewell!" 
Later that afternoon back in my hospital room, as I was staring at the ceiling, I began to think about what the physical therapist said to me. She said that I would recover. I thought, she see's a lot of people like me, so if she thinks I can fully recover maybe I can? 
At that moment a mental shift occurred in my mind, body and soul. I started to regain my faith again. It seemed my physical therapist had mentally enabled me or gave me permission to heal.
This moment was an epiphany for my life moving forward. After that day of her powerful words to me, my recovery went into overdrive mode. My recovery speed was baffling to my doctors and physical therapists. 

"I thought to myself, when I was told I could heal, I did heal. Wow, how powerful our mind is! How our words to each other have so much power."

I thought, have I been blocking out other areas of healing, restoration and other positive possibilities in my life? Was I allowing my current internal narrative and landscape limit my life vision in other area's of my life? 
During that time I learned that I need to always look down the road from my current situation. Where do I want to be? I can get there if I allow it and work hard to get there. 
Are you unknowingly blocking out areas of success, love, healing or restoration in your life?
The power of our words to others and our thoughts are more powerful than we can imagine if we intend and enable it.
Oh, and I did go back to visit my therapist after I was 100% recovered! It's a great moving story of gratitude, love, mercy and victory but you'll have to buy the book to read about it! ;-p

Kidney Transplant Cost Man His BalanceLiving A Better Life From The Inside Out

Tim Ewell
Author,
Triumph, Living Inside Out
& Gift, Living Inside Out

Life is a gradual journey. Sometimes in life we look around and think, how did I get to this place or situation? One experience gradually meshes into the next, and so on until one day we either find ourselves unhappy, disillusioned, feeling out of sync, or like in my case out of balance.
Getting your life in order with priorities and balance can be a challenging. It can be tricky. With the best intentions for your life, we can can lose our way and find self-worth and life identity and value in other means. 
For me, after recovering from years of being sick with a kidney disease, I was not able to work at the level I wished. After a life saving kidney transplant I found myself healthy for the first time in over ten years.

Once I was healthy, I couldn’t wait to get back to work as a corporate video producer/director and live event producer. I was eager to make up for what I thought was "lost years of productivity." I felt that I let my family down with the loss of potential earnings being very ill. I needed to feel that I was contributing to household again in the way I desired.
I dove into my work like never before with enthusiasm, stamina and energy! I run my own corporate media company Trinity Media, Inc. We produce content for fortune 100 companies. They hire my company to produce internal and external video productions, live press release events, annual conferences, town hall meetings, shareholder meetings and community relations events. 
As time went on, I became increasingly busy with work and pleasing our clients.  I was unknowingly and slowly shifting into gaining my self-worth from my work. Before my kidney transplant being so ill most of the time, my self-worth was very low. After my kidney transplant, when I was healthy again, I was enthusiastically working one project into the next without any breaks ,I would say to myself, “What’s wrong with earning a living?” "Go Man Go!!"

This thinking was fine for a while, until a life shift had gone unnoticed as it was disguised in making a living. Slowly, my life had unknowingly evolved into valuing work which had taken priority over my personal relationships with my wife, family, friends and most of all God. 
When you get to this place your life, it seems as though life gets harder, nothing seems to go as easy at it once did. Everything I tried was harder and more frustrating than ever before; though you are doing your best it takes twice as much effort, and nothing falls into place as it once did. During this time one can unknowingly start to disconnect from their support system; the support system being your spouse, family friends and God. Since your support system is no longer part of one's self-worth, one can unknowingly start to disengage those relationships. I found that everyone was disappointed in me, and not there to offer help as before. I had in a way, turned my back on the people that mattered the most in my life and placed work first place.
What’s wrong with making a living right?? Nothing, if you do it in balance.
Don’t make the mistake through the best intentions like I did. When things had gradually evolved into the most difficult times my life priority list looked like this:
1.     Work2.     Friends3.     Family4.     Spouse5.     GodThis life priority order didn’t work for me at all. When you’re working hard but everyone that really matters in your life is angry and disappointed in you for not being at family functions or not honoring date nights, etcetera, work can be a lonely place and unfulfilling too.
This is usually the moment when you find your life out of balance, and you ask yourself, “How did I get here? What happened? Why am I miserable and despised by everyone? I just want to make a good living for my family, and save some money too...what's wrong with that?
This is an example of how living out of balance can subtlety steal your joy and ruin relationships. For me this was my dilemma. My newfound health indirectly clouded my ability to make life-balancing decisions. In my book new book “Triumph” “Living Inside Out’ I go into much more detail of how to avoid these subtle shifts that can lead down the road of an unbalanced life.
Once out of balance having to navigate back into balance I learned valuable insights that I share in great detail in my book. Some the lessons I learned were:
1.     Give yourself time to heal mentally and physically after a tragic accident or long-term illness or major life shift like divorce or the death of a loved one for example.
2.     Take your time and methodically plan your next life steps in sync with your life priority list.
3.     Plan your work and work your plan
For me personally, I found that #3 is where I made the biggest breakthrough in life restoration. I looked at my life priority list and was truthful about making the changes necessary changes. My next steps for my life plan became more apparent that I must radically change the order of my life priority list, so that I could find balance in work, family and spirituality. My life priority was rearranged to this order:1.     God2.     Spouse3.     Family4.     Friends5.     WorkBasically, I found that I was totally out of sync with life priorities. Like many of us making a living was a top priority. I think we all agree that making a living is important, but at what cost to your family and your spiritual beliefs?
Once I realized why my life was so hard and out of sync, I was able to make a conscious shift in my reality. Once I made “the shift” a miraculous thing happened, my life started to feel better, things fell into place, I was better balanced and in “the moment” in each area of my life.
When I was grateful to God for all he had done bringing me out of my illness, and spent quality time with my wife, family and friends my work just into place. My life was more fulfilling!
Studies in human behavior show that a routine becomes a habit after 30 days of repetition. I encourage you to define and create your life priority list, then stick to it for thirty days when making life decisions and notice how much better and orderly your life feels. 
You can live better from the inside out! Start today!

Sincerely,
Tim
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