“Living with Purpose: Are You Too Busy?” – Guest Post by Carrie Shiomos Recently, Kem forwarded an article to me called The Disease of Being Busy by Omid Safi. It’s a very thought-provoking article in which the author describes our modern lifestyle of busyness and distractions as a disease. We run around accomplishing so many Read More
Category: Living with Purpose
Change my Attitude
I’m going to share something personal from my heart and real life. First, for those that don’t know me personally, I am a student of life, topics, and people – with an intense desire to help and succeed. I put a tremendous amount of pressure and guilt on myself because of this. That being said, Read More
Vision – Finding Your Direction
How are you doing on finding your direction? For a number of years, my mantra has been, “My mind is scattered in a thousand different directions!” with having so many hats to wear — mother, daughter, administrator, business owner, friend…so many ideas and plans! But as John Maxwell says, “The opposite of vision is scattered.” The Read More
Our Victories
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
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