One of my favorite rules of life is that I am only one idea or one relationship away from the next level. All it takes is one new idea and you’re off and running. You can struggle along for weeks and months and even years and then one day a new person walks into your … Continue reading
Tag Archives: discipline
The dark side of self-discipline
Simply put, it’s seldom simple. Take self-discipline, for example. The danger with self-discipline is you that you forget why you’re denying yourself or driving yourself. You’ve seen people like this… Take those people who practice amazing discipline with their diet. The danger is that it’s become about a certain image or lifestyle. Maybe it’s the … Continue reading
Your own special day
I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but… Today is most decidedly NOT a special day… If… You’re going to use it as an excuse. It is amazing the justifications we can come up with to make today an exception. You know the type of thing we do. “I’ve worked hard all … Continue reading
Deny yourself!
Is your life a swamp, lake or river? “Swamp people” are teeming with life, potential and possibilities, but they are stagnate, bogged down, and murky about where their life is going. They have no defined boundaries. “Lake people” are not people who have a nice home on the lake (I know where your mind was … Continue reading
Eliminated!
A radical question that you need to ask yourself regularly is, “What do I need to eliminate?” Improvement is good. Tweaking can be good. Starting something new is good. But sometimes the only way you will move forward is to ruthlessly cut away some thing, habit, or relationship and walk away from it forever. And … Continue reading
The free cheese
Remember, the “free” cheese is in the mousetrap. When making decisions this week, a good practice is to choose the most difficult task first. First, knock out all the things you don’t want to do but must do. Go with those choices that require the greatest commitment and cost the most. Make the tough choices … Continue reading
What would disappoint you?
“When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.” _Ryan Reynolds What would really, really…really disappoint you? That is where your hope lies and that is where your focus needs to be. Most people are into pain management. Their focus is on making their life as easy and pain free as possible. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Day 13/40-days: 40-days = forever?
Forty days can seem like a lifetime when you measure it in terms of daily deprivation. No matter how noble or right the cause, to go forty-days without something you like, crave, and even need can become wearying and demoralizing. Over the years of participating in an annual 40-days of prayer and fasting I’ve notice … Continue reading
Beware of grace!
Beware of grace, it is highly addictive. Grace is wonderful when you need it but make it your goal to not need so much grace today. Now let me be clear, we have all sinned and we all fall (present tense) short of the glory God (Romans 3:23) so we all need God’s constant grace … Continue reading
I deny that…
Hebrews 12:1-2 (NKJV) Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, … Continue reading
