Posted March 27, 2016 - Leadership, Mission
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How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach —
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How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you’re still alive, it isn’t. ~Richard Bach I love the quote from Bach. As long as my heart is still pumping blood and my brain is still sort of working, I will be carrying out my Life Mission. One of my favorite Bible…
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Posted March 12, 2016 - Leadership, Vision
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When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, 'Wow, that was an adventure,' not, 'Wow, I sure felt safe.'
— Tom Preston-Werner —
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We are focused on the vision/dream for our life right now. I’ll never forget the very first time I was exposed to dreaming/visioning. I was thirteen years old attending basketball camp at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Our speaker for the day was a very successful Ohio high school basketball coach by the name of…
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Posted February 24, 2016 - Leadership, Priorities, Purpose
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
— Nelson Henderson —
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 Continued from February 23… The young boy in this story was my dad, the grandson of Frederick Meyer an immigrant from Germany who came through Ellis Island in 1892.  My guess is my great grandpa Meyer was chasing a dream with hopes of providing a better life for himself and his future family….
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So did I pique your interest at the end of yesterday’s blog? No, I didn’t win the lottery…God knows better than that. 🙂 But… Today is our middle child (Jordan’s) 30th birthday! I decided to take a break from working on our life purpose and vision and focus today’s blog on Jordan. On February 3rd,…
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Posted January 30, 2016 - Mentors
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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
— Harold Smith —
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 Being a recovering drug addict and someone who has helped others with the disease of addiction, I know it is not the drugs and/or alcohol that eventually kills the user, it is denial. Today I know denial of the truth or denial of even wanting to know the truth is a common denominator among…
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Posted January 29, 2016 - Action, Effort, Faith, Worry/Anxiety
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Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
— Dale Carnegie —
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I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer but when I need to, I can work with the best of them and many times over the years I have “worked” my way through fear, worry and anxiety. What are your worrying about? What do you fear? Name it, claim it, dump it…and get to…
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Posted January 27, 2016 - Humility, Leadership
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
— Charles Bukowski —
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 If I would have seen this quote thirty years ago I would have ignored it and thought it was absurd as I once was one of the most confident idiots I’ve ever known. “Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?  There is more hope for a fool than for him.”  Proverbs…
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Posted January 22, 2016 - Action, Patience, Perseverance
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It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.
— Jim Rohn —
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Our “get everything quick” society causes many of us to grow impatient when things don’t happen as quickly as we would like. Â Anything of any significance takes time, it takes patience, it takes focus, it takes perseverance…I write from experience. Slow and steady, with an unwillingness to quit, always wins the race. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch…
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Posted January 20, 2016 - Community, Mentors, Victor
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Form your purpose by asking for counsel, then carry it out using all the help you can get.
— Proverbs 20:18 (MSG) —
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 Nothing great in life happens by doing it alone. If you are trying to make the most of yourself it will not happen without surrounding yourself with wise counsel. Sometimes the most powerful three words we can say are, “I need help.” Who are you listening to? Who are you talking with? Who is…
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Posted January 19, 2016 - Encouragement, Helping Others
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Mercy to the needy is a loan to God, and God pays back those loans in full.
— Proverbs 19:17 (MSG) —
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 How much are you loaning to God these days (i.e. helping the needy)? How much are you keeping for yourself? I very rarely make statements of absolute nature but one statement I can make with totally absoluteness is “whatever you gain materialistically in life cannot be taken with you to the next frontier.” Another…
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