“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.”  ~John Foster Dulles If you aren’t involved in a business this quote can also apply to your life. If you are dealing with the same problems year in and year out it…
Category: Life Issues
Daily focalPOINT – Monkey Bars
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.â€Â ~C.S. Lewis So many peoples’ lives become paralyzed by the unwillingness to let go of something. How many monkey bars are you holding onto from the past? Positive, personal growth will…
Daily focalPOINT – Start
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.â€Â ~Karen Lamb …agree P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Proverbs 14:23, “All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.”
Daily focalPOINT – Going Deeper
Being wise often means having no need to say a word and having people understand what you aren’t saying… The Proverb for today contains a few more nuggets about what it takes to go from being dumb to adding depth (see yesterday’s blog) to your life. Proverb 19:8; “Those who get wisdom love their own lives;…
Daily focalPOINT – Dumb or Depth
o-pin-ion (noun) 1. A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. I can remember receiving a call from my daughter during the first month of her freshman year of college. She said; “Dad, I feel so overwhelmed when I talk to my classmates (she was at an Ivy League School),…
Daily focalPOINT – Rock On Dads
Ephesians 6:4, “And fathers, don’t stir up anger in your children, but bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.” (Holman CSB) Back in the formative years of my adult life I spent way too much time Rocking and Rolling and the rolling consisted of me running away from my duties as a husband…
Daily focalPOINT – View
Shallow and sad is an entire lifetime viewed through the same set of glasses inherited from birth… We are all given a set of glasses to view life through when we are born. For the most part it is a “family prescription” that evolves over the years based upon our family’s beliefs as well as the circle…
Daily focalPOINT – Dare
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” ~Seneca I write quite often about the devil’s favorite four letter word-can’t, but there is another word that starts with a C that he also enjoys watching us use. This other C word…
Daily focalPOINT – Expansion
“Sometimes you need to lose your mind before you can come to your senses.” ~Peaceful Warrior This is another way of saying “we cannot change our current conditions with the same thinking that got us here.” I observe so many people going through life without ever taking a chance on expanding their thinking and deepening…
Daily focalPOINT – More on Can’t
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” ~Vincent van Gogh If we are unable to bridle our thoughts, we become our own worst enemies. Back during our walk through the 47 days of lent I wrote about the devil and his…
Jay Meyer
I started this blog in 2008 because of my passion for helping others take their lives to the next level. My hope is that, through sharing my life experiences as a business leader, husband, father, and recovering drug addict, I will positively impact your life.