There are times in life when our circumstances can prevent us from being relaxed and happy. Dramatic changes like a divorce or a death in the family can be highly stressful. Illness or job stress likewise can make us feel overwhelmed. But most of the time, our lives aren’t terribly…
Most of us don’t have trouble picking good goals. We are able to pick appropriate goals that suit our natural skills, and that simply require us to stretch a little bit. Where most of us get stuck is in figuring out how to accomplish the goal that we’ve chosen. The…
We often think of highly successful people as folks with big egos. They are people with confidence in spades who attack life and take no prisoners, as they say. But, in fact, the opposite is true. It actually takes humility to achieve real success. Consider the following ways in which…
No one goes through life unscathed. We all have experienced things that we wish we hadn’t. And we’ve all seen cruelties that we wish we could un-see. The past is always imperfect. For example, as a child, I witnessed interactions between my parents which were awful. I wish I could…
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The hardest part of growing older is accepting that certain chapters of life are done. You can’t revisit them. There are no do-overs of the seasons of life. Accepting that is challenging. …