Category: Leadership

Goals and Happiness

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

— Andrew Carnegie —

  I love this quote by Andrew Carnegie. Visualizing a dream and creating a plan for execution through goal setting does indeed command your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes…I write from experience. No matter where you are in life or what the Good Lord has given you to handle, set goals in…

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Want to Will

The best way to turn average into excellence is to speak “will” instead of “want.”

— JJM —

  Years ago I can remember having this vision for our business and it was all about wanting to become one of the most highly regarded and respected businesses in our industry.  In that moment, I decided to turn that “want” into a “will” and the rest, they say, is history. Instead of thinking and…

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Acceptance

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

— William James —

  When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.  From that moment on, I have not had a single compulsion to drink.  And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today.  When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or…

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Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

— Ambrose Redmoon —

  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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Real Humility

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

— William Temple —

  Hmm, ponder and reflect on this one…it’s a good one. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com James 4:6, “But he gives more grace.  Therefore it says, ‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’”

Inside Out

Get the inside right. The outside will fall into place.

— Eckhart Tolle —

  I see a fair share of people these days who are impatiently chasing the next shiny object. In this quest for shiny objects is a neglect of truly understanding and knowing ourselves on the inside and a disconnect with what God has planned for us on the outside. I was one of these “shiny…

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The Right Medicine

God doesn't prevent hardship from happening, but He can make it easier to handle.

— JJM —

  The above thought came to my mind as I was doing a quick cruise through my Facebook friend’s posts. There are lots of people who are in pain right now and Facebook has become a great way for those in pain to reach out to others for prayer and support. The fact of the…

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Good, Better, Best

Over the course of my life I’ve been exposed to many great quotes and sayings, and even created some of my own.  A practice I started years ago was to read a quote every day and reflect on it.  As most of you know that has become a part of the format for my daily…

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In our response lies our growth and freedom…

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

— Victor Frankl —

  “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing:  the last of the human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”  ~Victor Frankl “In most any circumstance there is good and bad.  Your attitude will determine which of these become magnified.  ~JMeyer This past weekend…

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Be Different

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 —

  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.”