Taking time for yourself is essential if you want to be successful. Sometimes, you have to get selfish if you are going to achieve a healthy balance of work and recovery. Always giving without receiving eventually leads to burnout. Most people’s life ratios today look like 9:1 output, leaving a 1:9 input. You can only […]
Your excuses will always sound good to you. Do you know why? Because the enemy knows exactly how to entice you to think you don’t have enough. You’ll actually hear a voice say, “I don’t have this…” and it will actually make sense to you. You’ll think, “Yeah, I don’t. I don’t have the money, […]
If you want to go to the next level in your life it is going to require sacrifice. In fact, you have to give up to grow up. The only reason you are not where you want to be yet is because there is something holding you back. And until you give that thing up […]
You have value and abilities far beyond what you’ll ever credit yourself with. Never believe the lie that you have nothing to offer. Our strengths and skills are not a needle in a haystack, rather they are natural, common abilities to us. Since most people do not recognize their strengths because they are so natural to […]
Questions are a great thing. Author Tony Robbins said, “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself.” We need to be like the little girl who kept asking question after question to her mother. Finally, the mother cried out, “For heaven’s sake, stop asking so […]
To live a life of intentionality, you must have an extreme bias toward action—the drive to make your life count. The good thing is that, in my opinion, everyone possesses this desire; it’s just a matter of extracting and activating it. The goal of life is not to arrive at death safely, but sparingly. By […]
If we are going to hear God’s voice we have to tune out all others. We hear a million voices a day. Through news, social media, radio, podcasts, co-workers, family members, and ourselves, we are bombarded with chatter. Some of these voices are screaming louder than others. Some of these voices are more influential than […]
Overcoming adversity, discouragement and self-doubt is something many of us have had to do throughout our lifetime. During these times you will have many turning points in your life. There will be crossroads, detours and dead ends to face; each one will become a turning point. Making that turn and navigating through life’s challenges will […]
Creativity is essential for living a successful life. One will never reach their full potential without an element of creativity and innovation. Now, you might be saying, “But I’m not a creative person!” Well, let me push back on you and say, “That is a lie!” You see, you were created by a creative God […]
No one likes to be around greedy individuals. Covetousness repels people from you. It does not draw them closer to you. When we allow ourselves to covet our neighbor’s blessings, we start to pull away from community with them. We cannot allow jealousy, pride, anger, bitterness, resentment, and gossip to start sneaking its way into […]