Tag: change
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Why Failure Can Be a Positive
We don’t often think of sharing our failures or our weaknesses do we? Why would we want to let others know we aren’t perfect? Even superheroes have weaknesses though. Superman couldn’t stand kryptonite. Green Lantern had no power against yellow. Daredevil was overwhelmed by loud noise. There are several reasons to actually share our failures…
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The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns
The book The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns is a call to action for Christians wrapped in the story of the author’s journey from the executive boardroom of a large and prestigious corporation in the east to the headquarters of World Vision U.S. in the state of Washington. This story in itself is an awe…
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What Are You Investing In?
I’m going to cheat a little on this post. I’m going to use it for both of my blogs. Honestly, it applies to both. In case you haven’t checked out my other links before, I have a Personal Finance blog and a Personal Growth blog. This post covers both topics. Right now my wife and I are…
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Just Another Vacation?
I was reading my mom’s cousin’s blog about a recent trip she took to Costa Rica as sponsor for the senior class at the Christian school she teaches at in Marion, Indiana. I thought that it would make a great topic for a blog on personal growth. Then today at church, we had a lady…