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442 Favorite Things 2024

2024/12/6
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Jason Parker在播客中分享了他2024年最喜爱的事物,涵盖了生活中的方方面面,包括与家人朋友共度的美好时光、美味的食物、实用的电子产品、令人心旷神怡的远足路线、舒适的衣物、发人深省的书籍、动听的音乐以及充满智慧的播客。他详细描述了每一样事物给他带来的感受和体验,并分享了他对这些事物背后的思考和感悟。他认为,与他人分享生活,体验生活中的美好,才能让生活更加充实和快乐。他还推荐了一些他认为值得尝试的事物,例如在Bainbridge Island的Harbor Public House品尝蛤蜊浓汤,体验华盛顿州的几条远足路线,阅读《从力量到力量》和《呼吸》等书籍,收听《Family Life Today》、《Elevation with Stephen Furtick》等播客。总而言之,这是一个充满个人情感和生活智慧的分享,旨在启发听众去发现生活中的美好,并与所爱之人创造更多美好的回忆。

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This chapter covers my favorite experiences from 2024, including a concert with my daughter, riding motorcycles with my nephew, attending a Giants game with my dad and sister, and playing in two pickleball tournaments.
  • Concert with daughter (Jack Bryan)
  • Riding motorcycles with nephew
  • Giants game with dad and sister
  • Pickleball tournaments (gold and bronze wins)

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Welcome back, amErica to sound retirement radio, where we bring you concepts, ideas and strategies designed to help you achieve clarity, confidence and freedom as you prepare for and transition through retirement. And now here is your host, Jason Parker.

america. Welcome back to another round of sound retirement radio. I'm so glad you're tuned in into this episode is my favorite things of twenty twenty four. Last year was the first year that I had done this.

And in today's podcast, i'm going to share with you some of my favorite things for this year twenty twenty four, it's time to get you roll IT out and start shopping for Christmas gifts. So i'm not only going to share with you some of my favorite things, but i'm also going to share with you some of my favorite experiences. I'm so grateful that we get to do life together.

Thank you for two and in the sound retirement radio. And I hope these ideas inspire you as you search for meaningful gifts for your loved ones and plan enjoyable moments, the people who matter the most to you. Before we get started, though, let's renew our minds. And i've got diverse here, force from the visions, chapter six versus thirteen through nineteen, therefore put on the full armor of god so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground.

And after you have done everything to stand, stand firm, then, with the belt of truth bucked around your waste, with the breast plate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace, in addition to all this, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming errors of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation in the sort of the spirit which is the word of god, and pray in the spirit on all occasions, with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the lords people, and then something fun for the grandkids.

What do gingerbread men use when they break their legs? Candy canes? What did the snowman say to the aggressive carrot? Get out of my face.

Okay, i'm organizing these favorite things as follows. I've got experiences, food, gadgets, hikes, clothing, books, songs, podcast. And i'm going to include links to all these items in the show notes.

Just visit sound retirement planning out com and click on episode number four hundred and forty two. I like this quote from elanor roseville. SHE says the purpose of life is to live IT, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. My dad was sharing with me.

He said he was told me a story about when he was eighteen years old and he went to visit his ant in florida and um he said that he went to disney world but he was by himself and he said, you know, Jason, life is so much Better when you get to do life with other people. And I I just think it's so true. So these were some of the experiences this year that just really, I think, help make this twenty twenty four a great year for me.

And the first one is a concert that I took my daughter too. She's gonna seventeen soon, and SHE one of the great things about having a seventeen year old daughter. S, you get introduced to all of this amazing music that's out there.

But this particular artist is somebody that I actually enjoyed his music as well. His name's jack bryan. He's kind of a mix of country rock, maracana folk.

And, uh, I took her to this concert to celebrate my my fifth birthday and also to celebrate her seventeenth birthday. And I just a great, great concert and it's just fun to get to spend that time with her. The next one was riding motorcycles with my ten year old nephew.

He is such an amazing motorcycle writer, and he had an extra one. And so I was out there riding around the yardo with a house. A lot of fun.

My sister and I took my dad to a safra csco giants game. We rented a hotel in downtown, and Frances go right across from the ballpark. And we, all three of us, shared a room, which was kind of ridiculous.

We ve got to drive in a way more when we are down there in conferences. S, one of the self driving cars just had a lot of fun on the drive down there with my dad, my sister and really charge that time. So great experience.

And then my last, uh, favorite experience was I I played pick ball and two tournaments with my friend Michael, and we won gold at one of those tournament and we won bronze at the other. And a pickle, you know, it's my, it's my latest addiction. okay? The next thing I have for you, my favorite food.

Now I have to tell you, i'm almost reluctant tell you about this because I know as soon as the work gets out, this this restaurant always already slammed. But we have a relative that comes in visits once a year. And he travels the world, he and his wife that travel the world, and he's somewhat of a climb shoulder connector.

So he said, he ordered clamoured everywhere he goes and he said, yes. And the very best climb in the world is right down on bAmber gisland, which is like a twenty minute dry for my house. And so we went to this place, and we have this climb charter. And I have to tell you, it's a life changing experience.

So if you're ever in town, if you ever fly into seat, take a ferry over the bAmber island and visit the harbor public house and try their pub famous shouter, it's twenty two dollars IT will knock your socks off life will never be the same if you um if you enjoy climb chowder the other thing this one isn't really food but um we bought a black stone girl this year at costco and you know there's something about being able to cook, bake and outside IT just feels like your campaign most, but you can have your your girl right there next to your barbecue. And I don't know there's something about cooking outside. I just enjoy IT.

So as a fun purchases last year, okay, the next category are gadgets. So I bought a new apple watch, the apple watch ultra. And you know, I like tracked in everything. I like tracking my workouts. I like tracking my job.

I like being able to listen to podcast as i'm running yeah, the apple watch alter is just a really amazing towards incredible how how good the products are the apple puts out. And so um if you're looking for a new watch, that one I highly recommend the other one and this one is uh just something really simple. But it's a car wireless, uh, car charger for your phone.

It's called the C H. Geek wireless car charges like twenty dollars probably be a good stock in stuffer if you're looking to get somebody something. But the thing I like about IT is that you know that attaches to one of your vents in your car and IT plugged in.

And so when you set your phone and it's got a little motor and so kind of closes and holds a tight and then you had a but on the side and IT opens IT up and the the phone falls out. But what's in the it's sitting there, what's in the cradle, it's also being charged. And so I just really is one of those little purchases, twenty doll purchases that I just like, okay, my next favorite for twenty twenty four or some of my favorite hikes.

So if you ever make your way out here to washington state, these um you won't be disappointed. The first one is mount zon over in the olympics. It's it's a short hike. It's only a couple miles.

I'm going to include links to all of these so that if you're looking for a good hike, you can just you quickly find IT if you go in, uh, the end of may or june, it's when all the road dendrites are blooming and there's just a ton of roses on this hike and it's a short hike. You get up to the very top. If you go a little bit further than where you think the top is, there's this rockit um is really steep and you can kind of walk we call a goat rock.

I don't know if there's a real name for that. You feel like A A mountain goat up there because very steep on either side just gna makes you feel alive as you're out there walking across the rock. The next one is the spruce railroad trail.

We actually took our electric bikes up to this one beautiful trail. Highly recommend. And then the last favourite hike for this year was mount storm king.

This is the one a couple episodes ago I talked about the fact I couldn't finish because I just got so steep at the the very top that um it's just it's just got to me for some reason I was very, very steep. It's about it's only a two mile hike. It's two thousand foot of elevation game, and at the top there are some ropes and stuff.

So you do mean know if you afraid of heights. If you have any fear of heights is probably not the best one to go on. But if you want one, it's onna chAllenge you a little bit.

I recommend that is fun. Okay, from a clothes standpoint, because i'm a pick ball player, you have to have good shoes. And I thought in the past I had found the best pick of shoes.

But this year I H tried the nike zoom chAllenge pick ball shoes. And I have to say, you know nike there at the top of the game when IT comes to shoes and those shoes um they're pretty amazing. So if you're looking if you if you've got a loved one that likes playing pickle ball, find out what you size they wear in order some of those and they won't be disappointed.

Kay, the next category are books, and this first book is called from strength to strength by author books. I've read IT twice now, and i've given that book two, like five or six of my closest friends. The subtitle the book is called finding success, happiness and deep purpose in the second half of life. Really phenomenal book, excEllent book. And then my second favorite book from twenty twenty four was a book called breath by James nestor and it's about the science of breathing.

Um he just he does all this research looking at how important IT is to breathe the intentional about our breath and I really found that to be an interesting in read not something I would typically read but one of my friends that uh I work out with his wife is a SHE, teaches a yoga class. And so SHE recommended IT to him. And then he recommended me.

And I like, well, that really was a cool book. Okay, here are my three favorite songs from twenty twenty four. Now these are not new songs, but there's a just ones that I could listen to him over and over and over again.

I just really enjoy these. These are actually older songs, but the first one is gratitude by brand and lake. If you haven't heard this song or include the link to youtube, you can watch IT. The second one is called washed clean by zac Williams and I don't even know this one actually exists on an album.

It's a live version of the song and it's incredible um again on close the youtube and if you want to watch out one and then of course, since I took my daughter to that as ac brian concert, I really like the song revival by avian. And if you're not for me without when you can check IT out, okay, the the last topic here are my favorite podcast of the year. So the ones that I find myself really enjoy this year, our family life today, that's with a dave and and Wilson and in each episode they bring on these different guests to talk from a biblical perspective, from a Christian perspective about you know live in a great life and I just really enjoy that perspective.

Um the second one I found was elevation with Stephen herrick. He is really a gifted pressure. I will often be listening to these episodes went i'm about jogger in the morning and he just makes me smile. It's kind of makes me laugh out loud sometimes when i'm listening to him teach um really A A great one more on the um from a business and finance standpoint.

Morgan housel has one of my favorite all time books ever on on finances the psychology of money and he started a podcast while back IT just called the Morgan housel podcast really a great podcast, really great content. My second podcast in this a sphere of business and finance is the bogle heads on investing podcast. I I don't think I missed an episode on this one and I I pretty sure if I haven't listen to him all.

I've listened to A A ton of them. I really enjoy the only put a podcast out maybe once a month or so, but I really enjoy the guess that they bring on the show. And then my last favorite podcast um is the founders podcast.

I just found this one this year and the um. The podcast host reads by ger fees of some of history's greatest entrepreneurs, and then he shares the highlights. And I just an amazing, amazing podcast where you can really learn an opportunity, learn from really some of history's greatest business.

So I i've really been enjoying the founders podcast, and that's IT for this year. That's a everything for my favorites. I hope you enjoy this. I hope maybe gives you some ideas, thanks.

Some experiences you can create with the people you love the most, or maybe a gift that you can give to somebody that you care about. And I hope that you have a great remainder of twenty twenty four. And i'm excited to talk about goal setting in twenty twenty five is always one of my favorite things to do. Are you accomplished all of my goals this year? And so we'll be talking about that just a couple months, but until next time is Jason sign in out?

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