How Many Times Should You Try Something Before You Quit?
Successful People Accomplish More Because They Persist Without Exception This is an interesting question. How many times is too many…ten, fifty, a few hundred, how many? Depending on who you ask, the answer will be different. For example, if you ask one individual in England, how many attempts should be made at passing a driver’s […]
What’s the Next Step in the Blog Posts to Podcasting Journey?
If You Really Want to Know…Read This Week’s Solution and Find Out A few weeks ago, we talked about the reasons why I would want to turn my blog posts into podcasts. We also discussed some reasons why I hadn’t yet. They included a lack of expertise and plain old procrastination. The main reason why […]
Expressing Gratitude is One Place, as People, We Consistently Fail
The Words, Thank You, Really Aren’t That Hard to Say Why is it that as a society we have become so ungrateful? Somewhere along the way we’ve developed a sense of entitlement. I think a lot of this currently goes back to the 20s and 30s and the hard times of the depression. People that […]
Scheduling is Pretty Simple…It Comes Down to Our Priorities
The Important Thing is to Get Clear on What Your Priorities Are Scheduling is something that most of us struggle with. We plan out our day and then something happens to mess up that perfect schedule. As the day comes to a close, we beat ourselves up because we didn’t get everything done. Why is […]
A Lot of Things are True…But There is Only One Truth
Belief is Important, But Not as Important as WHAT You Believe in We are bombarded with information that is presented as true. The flood of information that is out there today makes it hard to know what to believe. We take something at face value only to find out later that it isn’t true. Knowing […]
Capturing Thoughts When We Have Them is the Best Way to Keep Them
It’s Easier to Find a Note Than to Try to Remember a Thought That’s not to say that finding notes is easy. What I am saying is that whether it’s remembering a thought or finding a note…both require an intentional plan. I’m sure you’ve had great, earth-shattering ideas when you were in the middle of […]
Children Are Not Restricted by the Impossible and We Shouldn’t Be Either
If We Continually Put Our Drop in the Bucket…It Will Overflow Have you ever noticed how often we put restrictions on ourselves? We put up barriers between us and our dreams. We are our own worst enemy. We tell ourselves, “I could never do that.” Children on the other hand…don’t see any difference between possible […]
Note Taking Done Right Is Like Having a Memory Filing Cabinet (part 2)
In Addition to Expanded Memory, it Can Also Serve as Meeting Preparation Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing the issues of note taking and how this can be an overwhelming and daunting thing. We started out with the importance of determining the why before the how. Next, we discussed the struggle of deciding […]
How Would Your Balance Sheet Look if God Took an Accounting of Your Life Today?
This is a Question We Should Be Asking Ourselves Continually Every Day A young man who was working at his first job had made some mistakes. He was called into the boss’s office and demanded an explanation for the poor work and mistakes. The young man began making excuses and blaming other people. Then the […]
Note Taking Done Right Is Like Having a Memory Filing Cabinet (part 1)
It’s Up to You to Determine If You Need the Additional Storage or Not Last week I promised that we would look at my note taking system and how you can have a system that works for you. Previously, we discussed the how’s and whys of note taking and the pros and cons of different […]