"Peace I leave with you; My own peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled. ~ John 14:26-28 A "troubled heart" can be defined many different ways. The most notable is when a loved one has hurt us or perhaps when a loved one has depart...
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360 Interior Living: 3 Ways to Handle the Clutter of Life
Life doesn’t have to beat you up. Circumstances need not keep you down. Positions have no power to keep you stuck. Hurts won’t last if allowed to heal. Behaviors and attitudes can change. Change is a certainty of life, but learning from past mistakes can be your most valuable asset. No matter how responsible you are or how congenial you may be with people, you will inevitably slip up on moments that are uncomfortable and threatening. It doesn’t have to intimidate ...
360 Interior Living: Reclaim Your Identity
Passionate, strong, adventurous, optimistic, fearless, independent. These adjectives describe the woman who owns her identity. It describes the woman who has come from behind the shadows into the light of who God has created her to be. I've seen women give up the pursuit of her dreams in favor of helping their mate achieve his. She may withdraw from law school for "just a while" while he get's his law degree, expecting him to one day return the favor. But the day of favo...
Begin Doing 8 Things Now to Live by Design
You can do one of two things. Create the life you love by design or live it by default. Many people may say that is a cute cliche, however it is a real truth. Today there are many coaches claiming the phrase, "Design Your Best Life" or "Life Designer or Life Design. " It's a catchy phrase and sounds "trendy" and is different from just saying, "Change your Life" or even perhaps "Plan your Life." But wait a minute. Design is much more than that. Design is multi-faceted and co...
4 Key Ways to Change Your World
For many years I had a cat that I named Early. Each morning she would be at my bedroom door waiting for me as she escorted me into the kitchen to be fed. This is not something I'd trained her to do. Early just figured that’s what you do when you get up in the morning. Much the same is with your thinking. You get into the habit of thinking a certain way and then you’ll rarely question it after a while. Like Early, you become accustomed to doing things automatically as ...
Design Your Best Life: Clearing the Chaos
Great people are single-minded and focused. They concentrate on their priorities and don’t deviate from them. Why? Because they have a systematic plan to extract chaos from their daily routine in general and from their lives as a whole. Charles Dickens said this, “I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...” Most people try to put their h...
