“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.” ~Jacqueline Winspear In this, the second half of my life, my goal is to live with grace in all situations…I’m still a work in progress. A grateful heart in all circumstances is the beginning of living a life of…
Making the Most*
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.â€Â ~Ralph Waldo Emerson This sounds like a great New Year’s resolution to me. How about you? You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! …
Wonder
“I would maintain that thanks is the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” ~G.K. Chesterton …nuff said. Psalms 107:15, “Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!” P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com
What do you Answer to?
“It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to.â€Â W.C. Fields So many of us are way too concerned with what other people are thinking about us. Reminder most people don’t think about us much at all. Be your own person with your own Godly guidelines you answer to. Psalm 121:1-2, “I look…
Friend or Enemy?*
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.â€Â ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive True Dat! Jeremiah 29:11, “I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.â€Â …
Who Do You Think You Are?*
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you aren’t.â€Â ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty Our thoughts are so powerful. If we paid as much attention to them and their origin as we do all the worthless things we waste our time thinking about (maybe I’m the only one who does that),…
Control*
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~Thomas a’ Kempis, Imitation of Christ c.1420 Ouch! P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com James 4:1, “What causes quarrels and what causes fighting among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war…
Wisdom*
“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Great stuff and so true Mr. Emerson. I challenge you to take a week and journal how many “good hours” you live. If you do, make sure…
Joy*
“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.” ~Mark Twain On the flip side of that coin, misery loves company. Who are hanging out with these days? Do they bring you joy or misery? With all of that being said, there is only one thing worse than two…
Daily focalPOINT – Merry Christmas!*
“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them…
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.