Every success you have experienced in life has been a dress rehearsal for the future roles you have to perform.
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All of us are acquainted with how so much that occurs in our lives transpires behind our backs. And much of what transpires behind our backs in not always positive. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, says that your brand is what people say about you behind your back.
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There will always be people who will attempt to divert, distract and deter you from your purpose by hurling insults in your direction. The temptation is to respond. But doing so is unwise.
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We all love events. But in order to be successful, we must fall in love with a process. Author James Clear has written that the best way to enjoy success, fulfillment and happiness is to fall in love with the process. When you fall in love with the process, you don’t have to wait to be happy, and you release yourself from the tyranny of the clock.
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Perhaps you should pay closer attention to the price of the items on which you are spending your time, energy and attention. It would be a tragedy to pay too much for too little and not realize that you’ve overpaid until it’s too late.
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Some of the obstacles in our path are God sent. Some of our enemies have been handpicked by the Almighty. And some of our challenges have been divinely orchestrated to deter us from achieving an objective that may be contrary to God’s perfect will for our lives.
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If we define beauty based on external appearance, then we must conclude Jesus had an ugly background, an ugly birth, and an even ugly death!! Not too many scenes in Jesus’s life would make it on an Instagram Reel.
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When I was growing up there was a jingle that I am sure you have heard: “sticks and stones may break may bones, but names will never hurt me.”. Well, whoever created that jingle should be sued. Or smacked. Well, maybe not smacked. But that jingle is profoundly incorrect.
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As we ascend the ladder of success, we face difficulties and demands that are not evident to those who are positioned on lower rungs.
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The SVB implosion is full of lessons. Chief among them is the reminder that all of us have ideas, relationships, strategies and even possessions that are no longer worth the price that we paid for them—they have lost value. All of us lose things, and sometimes we don’t even realize that we have lost them until it’s too late.
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To be labelled a “copycat” is usually not a compliment. According to Urban Dictionary.com (and yes I keep telling yall…that is a real website, lol) a copycat is “an obnoxious individual who gets off on copying, imitating, emulating, simulating or miming the words, gestures and expressions of another.”
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We all are tempted to change our standards based on where we’ve been, where we are, or where we’re trying to go. But we should never allow our environment to regulate our values, determine our priorities, or change our purposes.
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The ability to appreciate an attribute, a quality, or an aspiration in others is an indicator we possess that attribute, quality or aspiration ourselves.
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We miss calls all the time. We miss calls because we are often missing in action. And guess what? Missed calls often result in missed blessings. I don’t know about you, but I know I have probably missed a ton of blessings because I’ve failed to receive a ton of missed calls.
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In the car industry, a high mileage car makes you less valuable. But in the realm of human relationships, being high mileage makes you more valuable—because it makes you more compassionate, understanding, and tolerant of others.
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Celebrating Black History month is a necessary corrective to the unfair and untrue narrative still being unfortunately perpetuated in far too many precincts that African Americans (and other peoples of African descent) have ONLY been the victims of white supremacy, institutional racism and social injustice.
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Every appetite that we have was given to us by God. The desire for food, water, sleep, recreation, companionship, procreation are God given. Although these desires can become corrupted and perverted, we must understand that they come from God. God would not have given us these desires if he did not want them to be satisfied. But God has also provided us with clear instructions on how they should be satisfied. Most sin is us wanting the right thing at the wrong time, with the wrong person or in the wrong way. Improper indulgence mitigates, distort ultimately destroy those desires.
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But I have learned that alot of people are fond of making splashes. And I don't just don't mean in pools. I mean in life. Far too many of us pursue activities and make decisions that are designed to make a lot of noise and attract a lot of attention. But those activities and decisions rarely get us to where we want to go, and they consume previous energy.
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Default settings are just not included in software applications. Every organization has a default setting. And Every person has a default setting as well. Our default settings are the deeply ingrained, unquestioned ways of thinking and acting that govern how we function
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Storms, pandemics and other crises only accelerate or reveal. A crises shows us what was already there, or what was going to eventually reveal itself. What a foundation is to a house, systems are to an organization or an organism. This crisis at Southwest revealed a profound underinvestment in the systems necessary to mange their operation.
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