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Tag: growth

  • Everyone Matters

    I just finished reading The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters by Andy Andrews which I was provided by Book Sneeze to review. This book is a short inspirational book that covers a couple of real world examples of what science has called the butterfly effect. The book starts out with an explanation of the…

  • Hope or Hope?

    I was reading my devotional today and there was a particular comment that really jumped out at me. The author referred to the change in the word hope as we tend to think of it today versus the way that it was used in the Bible. We tend to use the word hope more as…

  • Are You Strong Enough to Quit?

    The other day I was listening to a podcast by a fellow Free Agent Academy member, Andy Traub, in which he talked about the fact that he was a quitter. He said he’s quit tons of stuff. In fact he’d just quit serving in a roll recently at his church. He was quite proud of…

  • Encouragement for Navigating the Sales Jungle

    I recently received from Thomas Nelson Publishing a complimentary copy of Christopher A. Cunningham’s new book Jungle Warfare – A Basic Field Manual for Christians in Sales. When I first chose this book, I thought that it would provide strategies for improving your sales techniques. What I found is that it is more of a…

  • Clean Out Your Closets

    I recently read an article that cautioned those that are seeking employment about their online habits. The article cautioned that more and more employers are doing online “background checks” of potential employees. They are checking their blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts, etc. The caution was that you want to be careful about the kind of…

  • Not So Easily Bruised

    There are so many times in my life where I have worried about something I have said or done that involves a family member or a friend. Maybe I’ve said something and I’m not sure how they took it. Maybe there was something I did and I’m not sure if it upset them. I worry…

  • Growth Requires Roots

    I was recently chastised for holding to outdated beliefs and told that I should be focusing on growing as a person instead. There are many fallacies in that statement. To illustrate my point, all I need to do is turn to that “outdated” Book for an example. The parable of the sower fits the bill perfectly. I’ll…

  • BP Oil’s Biggest Failure

    I recently watched a pretty disturbing video. The video clip is from an MSNBC video with Rachel Maddow. It compares the current BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico to a 1979 oil leak in the Gulf. Unfortunately the situations are eerily similar. What is disturbing to me is not that BP is experiencing this…

  • A Natural High

    I’ve discussed this topic before, but it’s fresh on my mind given that I just returned from a mission trip again. I went to Diamond Willow Ministries in Central South Dakota. It is located on the Crow Creek Reservation which at the last census was in the poorest county in the entire nation! I cannot…

  • Two Simple Words

    Two small words. Yet so much power. How often do you use them? Have you sincerely told someone “thank you” recently? How about to someone who really was just doing their job but deserves a little appreciation anyway? Try it. I’ll bet you’ll be pleased with the results. Just think how that person is going…