Perseverance

I wonder what comes to mind when you hear the word persevere. To me it has a sense of waiting. A time of difficulty and great opposition. When what we perceive as success individually seems so close yet so far.                                      ...

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Many 'Second Chances'

Personally being given a second chance in life is a great feeling. It rejuvenates my attitude towards any given situation. In fact, my attitude towards seemingly discouraging situations sometimes is the problem. I hit a snag at work recently, I was receiving phone calls with clients...

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Excited to Guest Post at the Intentional Today Blog

Today I am honored to be a Guest Blogger for Ngina Otiende at the Intentional Today blog where I share that Change Begins With Me. Ngina is a writer and trainer who loves helping others take charge of their lives. She has a passion to see people reach their full potential through intentional growth and relationships. She is married to her hero and they live in Maryland. You can...

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An Unfinished House - Count The Cost

Back as a kid, there was a house on the way to school that lay unfinished for the longest time. It seemed that the owners were so burdened, they could not finish constructing their house. From afar, it was a seemingly beautiful mansion,  but when you took a closer look the house...

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Don't Waste Your Life

You have only one life, spend it wisely. Don’t Waste Your Life! It could seem obvious to everyone at first, but getting down to it personally: “How am I spending my life?” is a question we need to ponder on. What will matter, when you are no more – not breathing anymore? Will it...

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You are Not a Victim

These words changed and continue to change the course of my life and I pray that you would see the truth in them too. Good or bad, successful or unsuccessful, happy or sad, fair or unfair – you own your life. “You are accountable for your life. You have always been accountable....

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God-sized Goals

We have talked about goals already. I am sure you have heard about them over and over. Allow me to indulge you in a AHA-moment I had recently.  I read on a blog I follow, a post titled 3 reasons why vision goals are inseparable and it got me asking - "Are my goals God-sized,...

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Are You Waiting on Somebody?

Today, I watched a sad story of a lady who in less than one year has gone from a renown athlete to a deplorable state. All these questions about what happened for the situation to get to where it did, what can be done and who can help popped up in my mind. "Understand that your...

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Moving towards "What Moves You"

What Moves You? We move out of old houses, old neighborhoods, old territories and move into new houses, new neighborhoods, and new territories time after time. Change is inevitable. We don't like change and sometimes we don't anticipate it. We fight change most times. Others...

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Pure Gold Character

Walking even with no end in sight In every journey there is a path to follow. Some choose to travel through the less traveled on road ~ a road as Robert Frost said: "I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." I believe every person's journey is unique;...

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Don't Just Dream, ACT

I recently shared about dreams and awakening our dreams. There is a creeping dream buster called inaction, which can also be labeled mediocrity. Life sometimes happens, some say. Time went too fast, after college, job(s), marriage, kids, grandkids; there was never enough...

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Dreaming Awake

Each of us has dreams.Of a better tomorrow.Not of a better yesterday.Yesterday is gone, so we dream of tomorrow. Some of us dream only while sleeping.Some when awake.Big or small, all are dreams.Mental pictures of what we envision. I had big dreams as a child.  Back...

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