“We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather that asking things to change for us.” ~Stephen Covey There is no greater poverty than “poverty of the mind.” When one forgets he is the only person to have the ability to truly change his circumstance, poverty of the mind sets in and slowly…
Daily focalPOINT – The past is past
Don’t look back.  Carry the pleasant memories with you and be grateful.  Without them you would not be who you are today.   … JJM Many of us blur the view of today and tomorrow by not growing beyond the past. Striving to get out of the old and into the new is best done by getting…
Daily focalPOINT – It’s What I Do
Depending upon when you are reading this blog I am either getting ready to jump into Deer Creek Lake for a swim, peddling my bike on the back roads of central Ohio, or running a half-marathon on and around the dam of Deer Creek or  better yet…recovering from about 6 hours of taking my body…
Daily focalPOINT – Patience
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.” ~St. Augustine …I learned this one the hard way on more than one occassion. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Romans 8:25, “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”
Daily focalPOINT – Vita Nova
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their…
Daily focalPOINT – Mistakes and Choices
You can never make the same mistake twice because the second time you make it, it becomes a choice and not a mistake…and if you continue to make the choice over and over it becomes a habit and if you don’t stop it becomes an addiction and then the ability to choose is totally taken…
Daily focalPOINT – Truth and the Paths we walk
“To some the truth is an insult, to others life from the dead.” Gary Amirault As I was reading my morning Proverb yesterday my focus remained upon Proverb 18:10, “The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.” I jotted the following in my journal: The paths…
Daily focalPOINT
The following is taken from Jim Rohn’s Newsletter I received via email on September 17, 2012 and may be found in his book “The Seasons of Life.” Life is about constant, predictable patterns of change. For the six thousand years of recorded history, as humans have entered this world, received parental instruction, classroom instruction, and…
Daily focalPOINT – Wants
“My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.” ~J. Brotherton Luke 12:15, “And He said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch.com Luke 6:38, “Give, and it…
Daily focalPOINT – Running
“Sad is the life spent running away from problems and eventually figuring out the problem within the problems is yourself.” ~JJM I figured this out many years ago while sitting alone one evening in a chemical dependency center when I was at the end of my “run” at rock bottom in my life. It was in…
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.