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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 [...]
Why is it that only women try to improve their marriage? (2)
Continuing from the last post, we saw reasons why many men don’t see the need to improve their relationship. We also understood that it’s not effective for a woman to go head to head with her husband trying to change him by force. It is better to develop strategies and deal with each negative [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Character and reputation
Your character is what God knows you to be. Your reputation is what you think you are. The measure of true character is what you would do if you knew that the truth could never be discovered. The measure of your reputation is your ability to tell and promote stories (whether fact or fiction) [...]
In the beginning of everything and what Ted Turner said
In the beginning of everything, there were Adam and Eve Then, after the flood, there were Noah and his wife. In the beginning of the nation of Israel, there were Abraham and Sarah. In the beginning of the New Israel, through the birth of the Lord Jesus, there were Mary and Joseph. Have you [...]
What did I do to you?
You ignore me all day long, as if I didn’t exist; you make plans and don’t ask my opinion What did I do to you? When time is short but never short enough to stop you from doing what you want when you enjoy what I helped you conquer and think you’re the only [...]
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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