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Traveling into the future
Part two of the series “How to define a vision for your life.” Read the first part here. Now you’re going to travel into the future. You choose the date, whether it’s a year from now, eighteen months. Two years. Five. You decide. If you’ve never done this I suggest you start with a [...]
Nobody uses shoes
Perhaps you’ve heard of the story of the shoe vendor who travelled to India on business in order to explore the new market. Arriving there, the vendor contacted his company: “Schedule my trip back. There’s not much to do here. No one uses shoes in India.” The company brought the vendor back and sent another [...]
Vision dictates behavior
The human brain works primarily through vision – whether that’s what your eyes see, what your mind remembers, or what your imagination ponders. Give your brain an image and it will use all its might to seize it. When your stomach realizes that it’s hungry, your brain brings to memory the image of food [...]
The ‘who am I’ complex
Perhaps you don’t have this complex. Perhaps you’re among the minority who never had it, or you learned to overcome it. The rest of mankind, however, still have not figured out how many opportunities they lost or the plans that fell through because of this issue. It’s the ‘who am I’ complex. Who am [...]
God forgives. Now pay!
God’s forgiveness is bigger than any sin, but sadly it doesn’t keep the sinner from suffering the consequence of what he did. Understand this: To forgive is to eliminate the anger or hurt against the one who sinned. However, forgiveness does not deal with the consequences of the sin, just the sinner. I have [...]
Things which only exist inside of you
When you need to give a presentation and speak in public before 5, 20, or 150 people, the butterflies in your stomach don’t bother anyone else. The worry of what others may think of you, the fear of tripping up on the words or drawing a blank, feeling so shy you can’t even look [...]
Jealousy is a sign of injustice
For all those who suffer jealousy in a relationship: Did you know God is jealous of you? There are at least two references in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testament*, in respect to what God feels when we do not put him in first place in our lives. When our attention [...]
How to overcome anxiety
Anxiety does not get rid of tomorrow’s sadness but it does take away your strength for today, strength which you need to create a solution to stop it. Anxiety makes you live the problem a hundred times before it actually happens. It makes you fear something that only exists within your imagination. Due to [...]
When you realize you have to change
Over the course of our lives, we go through many experiences that shape us — or at least they try to. If we are blind and deaf to what each experience teaches us, then our character cannot be shaped. And that’s the problem many of us carry inside. Our human heart is just so [...]
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