Edge Time
January 22nd, 2012
If you haven’t figured it out yet, one of my new goals for 2012 is to try to provide a “nugget” of inspiration every day in order to help you stay on course toward achieving greatness in all aspects of your life. Hopefully you all know what my P.E.A.C.E. acrostic stands for. Many years ago [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 14th, 2012
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ~Harvey Firestone Are you leading and if you are, are you developing others? Are you motivating those you lead? Are you helping those you lead work through the pain of growth? Are you listening to those you lead? Do you truly care about [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 9th, 2012
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. ~Jim Rohn No matter how big or small your dream is, take a stab at creating a plan to achieve it. The world is not changed by dreamers the [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 2nd, 2012
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu My former business partner often said, “there are no free lunches.” If something great is going to happen in your life, you and only you can make it happen. Try adding a little “P.E.A.C.E.” to your life: Create a sound Plan, put forth Effort, apply the [...]
Think about this…
December 29th, 2011
“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” ~Robert Heinlein
Proverbs 21:5
December 21st, 2011
“Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.” –Proverbs 21:5 (NLT) For those of you wondering why you are not prospering: …do you have a plan? …are you working hard? …are you avoiding the easier, softer way (i.e. shortcuts)?? Nuff Said. P.E.A.C.E. jay@eaglelaunch
Attach a plan to your “Yes or No”
October 13th, 2011
Proverbs 13:4, “The soul of a lazy man desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made rich.” (NKJV) (This is a continuation of “Yes or No”) A phrase I often say to myself is “the only thing separating success from failure is a plan reduced to writing.” Although having my [...]
Yes or No?
October 12th, 2011
Matthew 5:37, “But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’, and your ‘No’, ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” (NKJV) I can remember many years ago sitting in my group therapy session during the early parts of my treatment center stay and the counselor asked us how we felt. The decade [...]
Ants “just do it”
August 6th, 2011
Proverbs 6:6-11, “Go to the ant, you slacker! Observe its ways and become wise. Without leader, administrator, or ruler, it prepares its provisions in summer; it gathers its food during harvest. How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a [...]
Proverbs 19…Who’s driving your life?
May 19th, 2011
Proverbs 19:21, “You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.” This is one of my favorite Proverbs as it reminds me just how much control I really don’t have. I found out the hard way that it is much easier to swim with God’s current than against it and one way I [...]