People Love Drama and Will Give it Their Full Attention
If You Catch on Fire, People Will Watch You Burn Why is it that when people drive by an accident along the road we want to slow down and look. What is this attraction? Why are we so captivated by car crashes? According to Roland Maiuro, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, […]
Digital vs. Paper – What Are the Pros and Cons of These Systems?
This Needs to be Determined Before We Can Decide Which System to Use Last week we discussed the how’s and whys of note taking. At the end of that post, I told you that we would look at my note taking system and discuss how you can have a system designed to fit your specific […]
We All Need Grace, and Getting It Comes Down to a Choice
This Is True for All Life’s Important Decisions Our whole life is made up of decisions. It’s up to us to make the right choices. Too often we don’t. Sometimes it’s because our life situation is all we’ve ever known. This was the case for Johnny Lee Clary. He grew up in a family full […]
How Do You Know the Best Way to Take and Store Your Notes
The Hidden Secret to “Note Taking” Success is in the Word YOUR Note taking is a complex challenge that’s been around for a long time. It’s the practice of recording information from a variety of sources including classes, discussions, meetings, podcasts, books, etc. What’s the best system or method? How and where should notes be […]
Competition Is a Part of Life, But Not the One and Only Thing
When Everything is Just a Competition There’s No Room Left for Celebration Competition is a problem when it’s the thing that gets all our attention. When no matter what we’re doing we’re trying to be better than them, whoever them are. This won’t end in a true celebration. “Keeping up with the Joneses” was a […]
How In the World Will I Ever Get My Blog Posts Turned into Podcasts?
It’s Simple Really…Get People to Help Me Build This Dream Last week I wrote about why I want to turn my blog posts into podcasts. I discussed some of my excuses for putting this off. The why question is where things start, but if you don’t do something it’s also where things stop. Answering the […]
Don’t Go Through Life Angry at the World…There’s a Better Way
Regardless of Your Situation, Being Angry Will Only Make It Worse We all find ourselves in situations that make us mad. The question is what are you going to do about it? Gary Christian took his first step straight into his own dark, cold, hellish hole on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007. That’s when law enforcement […]
Why In the World Would I Want to Turn My Blog Posts into Podcasts?
It’s Simple Really…To Help More People Build Their Dreams As a society we are moving at a faster and faster pace. This leaves less time to do all those things we’re trying to do and we’re trying to do a lot. Add to that, the overwhelm of information that’s out there. It’s hard for people […]
Faith Is Better Than Magic… Magic Only Goes So Far
It Requires Action from Us for Faith to Do Its Magic Faith’s magic is different than magician magic. It’s not a slide of hand, distract you over here while they do the “magic” over there. There were two boys that were always trying to out prank each other. One of them stole three candy bars […]
What If You Want to Do a Construction Project but Don’t Know Where to Start?
That’s Where the Right Qualified Virtual Consultant Can Help We all have our areas of expertise. One of mine is construction processes and systems. These are a couple of things missing from most DIY construction programs on TV as well as many of the “do it yourself” internet videos. They can be helpful, but typically […]