Know When to say ‘No’

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.

— Stephen Covey —

  Having clarity about your God-Purpose with priorities properly laid out allows you to spend more time creating ‘best’ instead of ‘good’ in your life. Do you have a God-Purpose? Do you know what your priorities are? Do you know what your guiding principles are? Do you know what you are really passionate about? Do…

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Focus-Dedicated-Disciplined

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick D.D —

  How focused, dedicated and disciplined are you?  As these three attributes grow, so grows your ability to not only achieve your God-Purpose but to expand it. There are four types of people in the world: 1. Those who make things happen. 2. Those who watch things happen. 3. Those who ask, “What the heck…

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Who’s Who of Self Discipline Quotes

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

— Buddha —

  “What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”  ~Aristotle  “The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”  ~Plato  “The best way to conquer self is to die to self and let the Holy Spirit be alive and live through you one day at a…

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Victory Over Self

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first.

— Harry S. Truman —

  You may have the greatest intentions in the world with an unbelievable passion to achieve your God-Purpose, but if you can’t overcome desires that take you off course you will fall with millions of others into the pit of “diminishing intent.” P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Titus 2:11-12, “For the grace of God that brings salvation has…

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2 Pains

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

— Jim Rohn —

  Which pain are you feeling? If it is regret, it is never too late to get started. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Hebrews 12:11, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful.  Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”

Courage and Fear

Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

— Mark Twain —

  Nothing stops our God-Purpose from happening quicker than unbridled fear. Fear happens, but what we do with it determines what happens with us and having the courage to face it head on with God as our co-pilot is the only way to master it. I have to think God gave us the ability to…

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Help

People only see what they are prepared to see.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson —

  I like this quote by Emerson as I also believe there are some of us who only want to see what we want to see (i.e. denial).  A couple of keys to personal growth is to always have more questions than answers and having people in our lives who’ve seen beyond what we are…

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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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