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 ...
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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...
Are you Winning or Whining?
I remember as a child while sitting in church I would read the back of the paper fans that lay in the pocket before me. Here is the poem that I always read on the back of the fan: Did You Throw it Away? God gave you this day to do just as you would, You can throw it away or do some good, You can make someone happy, or make someone sad, What have you done with the day that you had? God gave it to you to do just as you would, You can do what is wicked, or do what i...
5 Secrets to Designing for Success
The other day I was brainstorming with one of my friends over some things we are endeavoring to accomplish as we planned our upcoming conference in Los Angeles. We were charged and caught up in the moment by what God is doing in both our lives. I met Linda while I was on an assignment and we sort of gravitated towards one another. But the amazing thing about her is that she keeps me accountable and I her, probably by default because we understand that success is a choi...
