Unless it’s a ‘thing’, you should never compare. In the ‘person, place, or thing categorization – people should never be put in neat little boxes (no matter how beautiful the box). You cannot put them in cement either… they will insist on moving and changing and growing. Don’t you? How would you like to be […]
(fill in the blank: healthy, happy, famous, wealthy, etc. – and… are any of the wants in competition with other wants? and/or if you could have just one want – do you have one that is the most important?). Why the apparent restriction? Because being any (improvement) takes your concentrated involvement. Example: it’s the same
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Our lives go through paradigm shifts often… sometimes so subtly that we don’t seem to realize. It is only when we look back from the vantage point of passing time we currently occupy that we do see. Some of the shifts are defining moments in our lives, some are due to events that have preempted
You are responsible! End of sentence. You are also responsible to apply what you know. BUT you are also only responsible in terms of what you know… you can only walk in the light you have. The caveat in this is that you will always, as in always be involved in learning. We never make
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Does this describe you? Would you want to be considered as a self-motivator? If you were applying for a job, would you indicate this as one of your qualities? Perhaps I should ask – how do you view self-motivated? Is this a positive or not so great a designation? The first thing you need to
Do you ‘like’ structure? Whose? Do you place your own structure for yourself or allow others to place structure on you? No choice? Of course there’s choice! Point is if you allow others to place the structure, who do you trust to have your best interests in mine when providing it? And when I said
We all find them… or they find us. Is there only a certain amount of preparation we can do to avoid them? Do we take the opportunity to learn from our previous mistakes or just keep repeating them? If we know we will get burned if we stick our fingers into the flame, are we
Scenario: you are really, really angry (hurt, disappointed, frustrated, et al) what can you do? Remember, you are a Christian and can’t retaliate in the world’s way (of getting… even?). Also, you remember your Bible which tells you, “Vengeance is mine says the Lord. I will repay.”(Deuteronomy 32:35, Romans 12:17). So WHAT can you do?
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is what we need to know – what our next step should be. It isn’t that we need to know the end from the beginning… just that next step. If we seem to be standing still… are we? Is there a perfectly good explanation for why we are? And, how long have we been rooted
You have to, you know. If you don’t take the time to know what you are going to do when you win then you will face the same kind of dilemma as those who fail to plan (plan to fail by default). As silly as this may sound, you have to know what to
Just write down any questions that you may have and I will get back to you in a jiffy!
