Posted September 28, 2015 - Achievement, Action, Adversity, Attitude, Challenges, Character, Community, Confidence, Courage, Discipline, Dream, Effort, Energy, Excellence, Excuses, Faith, Focus, Holy Spirit, Patience, Perseverance, Personal Improvement, Prioritize-Prepare-Plan, Success, Time management
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Great things come to those who wait but continue to work their butts off while waiting.
— JJM —
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Yesterday I achieved a goal I set for myself a couple of years ago. I completed a ½ Ironman Triathlon distance race twice in one month…so I could say I did a full Ironman (2.4mi swim, 112mi bike, 26.2mi run) in one month. This particular goal took me three years longer than I wanted because…
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Posted September 5, 2015 - Courage
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
— James Baldwin —
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And thinking about what you need to face is not facing it. Facing it is speaking it to God and another human being. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Romans 8:28, “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”
Posted August 23, 2015 - Balance, Courage, Encouragement
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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is what life really means.
— Robert Louis Stevenson —
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This quote by Stevenson is all about living in the moment. Tall order but really simple to do if you die to self first thing in the morning and allow God to live through you a day at a time. And some days you may need to stop and start over. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Galatians 5:22,…
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Posted August 5, 2015 - Courage
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
— Ambrose Redmoon —
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Simply stated: we draw courage from God and fear from the devil. Who do you spend more time with today? God or the devil? God (courage) whips fear every day of the week…I write from experience. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Joshua 1:9, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do…
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Posted July 26, 2015 - Change, Courage, Leadership
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
— Friedrich Nietzsche —
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If we surround ourselves with people who all think like us and agree with everything we do, we will never grow. Nuff said. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Proverbs 13:20, “He who walks with the wise grows wise.”
Posted July 18, 2015 - Action, Adversity, Beliefs, Courage
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
— Robert Frost —
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Are you defining yourself or is your past or someone else defining you? Choose victory and not victim-hood. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Deuteronomy 20:4, “For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.”
Posted June 28, 2015 - Courage, Leadership
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Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
— Tagore —
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I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase–“what happens in your life is not what matters; it’s how you look at what happens in your life that matters.” I have found my view of life changes and my heart significantly grows stronger when I feed my body, mind and soul with good things. It is almost…
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Posted June 26, 2015 - Courage, Perseverance
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
— Ben Okri —
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So true. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Romans 8:18, “I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
Posted May 12, 2015 - Courage
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It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
— Edmund Hillary —
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…and what makes up ourselves is our beliefs and if we have beliefs that are lies and rooted in the world of “CAN’T,” and we believe that nonsense, then we will never conquer ourselves. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com 1 Corinthians 9:27, “I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should.” (NLT)
Posted April 14, 2015 - Courage
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Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
— Mark Twain —
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Nothing stops our God-Purpose from happening quicker than unbridled fear. Fear happens, but what we do with it determines what happens with us and having the courage to face it head on with God as our co-pilot is the only way to master it. I have to think God gave us the ability to…
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