Often in life, we get frustrated because we aren’t focused on our calling. Instead, we give all our attention to those things that are outside of our calling. For instance, we may give too much mental energy to our jobs. Or, we may give too much time to the television…
You probably have heard the saying, “Count your blessings,” meaning that we should be thankful for all the good things in our lives. But how often are we told to be thankful for our problems? Probably never. But I would argue that our problems sometimes can be our greatest blessings…
The best piece of life advice I could ever give anyone is this: Follow your own path. I will admit that doing so isn’t always easy. In our society, we tend to have a cookie cutter view of what constitutes success. For example, society says that successful people make a…
Do you ever ask yourself, “Why am I here?” Not as in, “Why do I exist?” But rather do you wonder, “Why am I in this family?” Or, “Why has fate brought me to live in this town?” Or perhaps, “Why have circumstances resulted in my having this job?” You…
At times, we all can fail to be fully engaged in life. Instead of being engaged with life, we avoid it. We find distractions so that we don’t have to be mentally present for what is happening right now. And on occasion, there is nothing wrong with that. Sometimes life…