If I’m not the problem, then there is no solution. This is an often used phrase that takes a little bit of time to understand and believe, but once you DO understand it and believe it; oh how peaceful life becomes!! Living the serenity prayer is a great way to handle your “problems” (i.e. you)….
Daily focalPOINT – Changing Behavior
“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” ~Samuel Johnson I love this quote by Samuel Johnson and it is so true. Often we find when we still have the ability to break a habit we usually don’t have the desire to break it, but when…
Daily focalPOINT – Who Understands?
“Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand.” ~Robert G. Allen …nuff said. Hang around with others who’ve been where you are trying to get to…they will…
Daily focalPOINT – Average
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.” ~Theodore Roosevelt I can remember a friend years ago telling me he needed to learn how to be average. I asked him why and he said he was a perfectionist and his drive for perfectionism was literally…
Daily focalPOINT – Real Change
The gambler limped over to his Master and asked, “I was caught cheating yesterday, so my partners beat me up and threw me out of the window. What would you advise me to do?” The master looked straight through the man and replied, “If I were you, from now on I would play on the…
Daily focalPOINT – Live
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life then death.” ~James F. Byrnes …chew on that one Is the desire for security paralyzing the part of your brain that sees opportunity? Personally I’ve never gotten hung up on being “secure” as I know how fragile life is…
Daily focalPOINT – Finger Pointing
“The real leader has no need to lead-he is content to point the way.” ~Henry Miller I enjoy observing people in positions of leadership. One thing I have noticed over the years is there are a lot more positions of leadership in the world than there are real leaders to fill those positions. If this…
Daily focalPOINT – Revenge
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” ~Josh Billings The devil resides in the home of the unforgiving… For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Matthew 6:14-15 ESV) P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com
Daily focalPOINT – Faults
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to accept them.” ~J. Petit-Senn P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com James 2:12, “Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgement.”
Daily focalPOINT – Sane
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.” ~George Carlin Call or email me if you can’t “hear the music” behind this one. 🙂 Remember…small minds and people talk about things; average minds and average minds talk about other people; great minds and great people talk about ideas, dreams, goals…
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.