If we will not endure the pain of cutting away what (or who) don’t need, we will experience the pain of missing out on what (or we) we do need.
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The little things are the big things.
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Everyone is always sticking out their hands. Even more stick out their tongues. However, not too many people stick out their necks. And this may be one reason why so many of us are unhappy, unmotivated, and unfulfilled.
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If you study the lives of several of the great men of scripture, you will discover that each of them spent some time in the wilderness. Moses, David, Elijah, Paul, and John the Baptist all had their seasons in the wilderness.
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The more we hold back, the further we fall back.
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Rarely is our problem the problem. Usually the problem is the way we see the problem—our perspective, or the lens through which we see a problem, situation, a relationship, or an event. Tony Schwartz has written that one way to enhance successful outcomes in every area of our lives is to employ a technique he refers to as the three lenses.
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When we neglect ourselves, we fail to properly value the best gift God has given us outside of salvation. I have discovered that it is far easier to take care of our stuff than souls; our property than our personalities; our lawns than our loved ones, our money than our minds, and our automobiles than our attitudes.
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Being liked has become an unholy obsession. Being liked has become an unhealthy aspiration. Being liked has become more important that being holy, being intelligent, being happy, or being successful.
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Instead of asking God for more, how about we start asking God to make us better managers?
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When we fail to reach our objectives or secure our blessings, it is often because we have failed to include time and/or pressure in our plan We either haven’t spend enough time or applied enough pressure. Time and pressure. Alone they are insufficient. Together, they are unbeatable.
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When I say have the funeral, I mean to engage in a public acknowledgement of a death. To have a funeral means to talk about it, cry about it, laugh about it, and then bury it—in order to accelerate your ability to get over it.
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What blessings on you on the verge of missing because you are moving too slowly?
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Instead of drifting, I decide how to spend my time, where to concentrate my focus and in what to invest my attention.
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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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