Category: Personal Improvement

Daily focalPOINT – Narrow or Broad?

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”  ~George Eliot The more I force myself to open my mind to other points of view, the more I grow as a human being… A person who has all the answers has obviously not asked enough questions… P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com…

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Daily focalPOINT – Get over it…

“We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things and sometimes taking things too personally.”   ~Dalai Lama Is this you? Some ways to overcome being over-sensitive is; forgive when you don’t want to, love when you don’t want to, give when you don’t want to, be happy for others…

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Daily focalPOINT – Progress

“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…

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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;…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Daily focalPOINT – More on Wisdom

“I ain’t perfect and never will be but if I’m not aspiring for daily progress I will fall back into the cycle of daily digress.”  ~JJM The brain is like any other muscle in the body it needs stretched if it is going to grow in wisdom and understanding. As I mentioned yesterday, Proverbs 3…

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