“It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off the fence. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”. ~Jim Rohn I see indecisive leadership as one of the chief causes of organizational failure. There are a couple of causes for indecision. One is simply due to…
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…
Daily focalPOINT – Seek AND Listen
When life seems much too complicated and overwhelming…chances are you forgot to include God in on what you are doing or else you included Him and you just aren’t listening… Including God in on everything you do is a great solution to all problems but the solution is worthless if you don’t listen to what…
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…
Daily focalPOINT- Pretty Pumped
My oldest son Jason is getting married to his college sweetheart Ashley Taylor this evening. Genesis 2:24, “This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.” Please keep them in your prayers as they begin their new life as one…pretty cool and this old…
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.” ~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 – Team
“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product and profits. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.” ~Lee Ioccoca Been there, done that and lived/experienced the synergistic effects of the second sentence… P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Hebrews 10:24-25, “And let us consider how we may spur…
Daily focalPOINT – Start
“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” ~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),…
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.