I have a lot of trouble keeping a focus on the future. I know my vision of the future is in my imagination, and I realize I need to see it in my mind’s eye. But, I must say, I live a lot in the past memories, and I find it a most common situation. Read More
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Living with Purpose: Life is a Choice!
I love to listen to and read books about living with purpose. Recently, one of my mentors, John Assaraf, told about an experiment with a group of people. They were asked to take two days of the week, each week, and on those days to change something about themselves. If they were normally non-sportie, they Read More
Living with Purpose: Is Your Life Significant?
Living with purpose: Is your life significant? Are you a person who is looking at the other end of the dash and wondering…is that all there is? Perhaps you’ve had a very successful career and now you’re in retirement, contemplating the next 10-15 years of entertaining yourself. For some, after the first 6-18 months, the Read More
Knowing Yourself: Play with Your Gifts
Wow! Talk about knowing yourself! I just took another very in-depth profile of myself, and I realized this morning that for the last 1-2 years, I have done some heavy-duty Kem Thomas Lutz studies! Now before I become repentant for all the self-study, let me be reminded that God created me – unique – Read More
Does Your Soul Ache?
“My writings are eclectic. I have mentors around the world!” Thank you, T. D. Jakes, for such inspiring thoughts and creative descriptions! The words “soul ache” describe my condition many times in my life. I oftentimes lived in a situation, job, or relationship, maybe peacefully, for months or years. Then one day my soul began Read More
Mutual Completion
“There is no competition when there is mutual completion.” ~ T. D. Jakes Have you experienced competition? I know we have all witnessed it on TV or on the sports field. On race tracks, we’ve seen people, horses, and cars vying for the lead. We’ve been entertained as each contestant pours all of their energy, Read More
Destiny: A Place Called “There”
One of my most favorite writers is T. D. Jakes. His poetic prose literally makes my heart sing, oftentimes causing me to well up in tears. He has such a gift. In chapter nine of his book, Maximize the Moment, T. D. names our destiny as a “place called there.” I have spoken and taught Read More
Your North Star
“You can’t see the North Star because the branches are in the way.” ~ T.D. Jakes Driving through Louisville with my husband and on many occasions, on our way to somewhere during the busy spring, summer, and fall seasons, a sense of disorientation and dread would come over us as we approached the populous Kentucky Read More
Significance
When I was 20 years old, I took off for Europe. I began my travel alone across Europe by Eurorail. This personal journey became a journey of understanding the human condition. In my travels, I talked with people in each country I passed through.…farmers, business men and women, school teachers, reporters, wood carvers, nurses, and Read More