Category: Leadership

Courage and Stepping Away

Courage doesn't express itself by marching boldly on and roaring like a lion. Sometimes courage is best expressed by quietly walking away from a situation and turning it over to God for refinement and clarification.

— JJM —

Something I learned a long time ago was the importance of stepping away from situations that didn’t seem like they were going as planned.  Sometimes stepping away only lasts a day for me, but when I couple stepping away with turning the situation over to God, amazing things always happen.  Sometimes what happens is not…

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Permission

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

— Mahatma Gandhi —

I’ve had a few breakthrough moments in my life and one of those was when someone many years ago told me I had a choice whether or not I allowed another person to hurt me. There are still times today when people disappointment me but that is as far as it goes with me as I…

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Courage and Pushing Through

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

— Bruce Lee —

As most of you know, I enjoy competing in triathlons.  I believe they are the ultimate test of an athlete…my opinion.  Recently my body has been trying to tell my mind it is time to give them up (due to my old age) but thank God my mind keeps telling my body to just keep…

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Courage

Courage is looking fear right in the eyes and saying, "get out of my way, I have work to get done."

— Unknown —

  Courage is also fear that has been prayed for. How is your courage these days? If you are struggling with fear and anxiety, maybe it is time to speak and pray at your fears and if that doesn’t work try reaching out to someone you can confide in and try a “tag-team” approach at…

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Faith and Hope

Faith is believing God is going to take you places before you even get there.

— Matthew Barnett —

Reflect on this morning’s quote.  When you place your  life in God’s hands are you confident He is going to help you or are you just hoping?  If you are only hoping then that type of hope is simply postponed disappointment. We have a God who could care less where we are and where we’ve…

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Three choices in life...Give up. Give in. Give it all you've got.

— Unknown —

It’s not difficult stopping an old habit and starting a new one.  The difficulty lies in staying stopped or started.  As I’ve said many times; “there are only two steps in changing a habit; start and continue.” We just completed a seven week process of starving an old destructive habit and/or starting a new productive…

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Victory over Victimhood

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

— Maya Angelou —

  In life we have a choice whether or not we want to be victims or victors. A victim chooses to think “why me?” and stays stuck in his circumstance.  A victor chooses to think; “why not me?” and makes the absolute most out of his life. A victim chooses to allow her attitude to…

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SUPER F O C U S

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

— Denis Waitely —

  Today is Super Bowl XLIX and is the day I brush up on my ability to translate the Roman numeral system to numbers I understand and reflect on the most powerful word known to any of us who are goal oriented… and that word is FOCUS. At this point in the season both teams obviously…

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Targets

I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.

— Zig Ziglar —

  Amen Zig! What is your target? What does it look like? The simple act of creating a visual target will begin the process of creating focus in your life. Take control of the focus of your life or else some other person, place or thing will. Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of…

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Change and Purpose

Your life's purpose may remain a mystery to you, as may the events of your world, but that's okay. God is in control. We are relieved of the responsibility of understanding everything and the need to change it.

— Ron Boyd-MacMillan —

  If you want to find your life purpose just keep doing the next right thing with God as your navigator…I write from experience…and trust in the bold scripture in one of my favorite Psalms below. P.E.A.C.E. and Happy Birthday Lori K. and Michelle Marie Meyer! Jay@EagleLaunch.com Psalm 111:1-10, “Praise the Lord.  I will extol…

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