Empowering people to make strengthening choices
Why are you here? Is your existence a series of reactions and habitual behaviors, just moments strung together like beads until the string runs out? “The purpose of your life,” writes Rick Warren in The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For, “ is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your […]
They say it’s the little things in life that matter, and if you think about your most precious memories, you’ll know it’s true. You probably can’t remember most of the Christmas gifts you gave in the last few years even though you agonized over the purchases at the time, but you can remember the way […]
Remember this quote? “I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about – quite apart from what I would like it to be about – or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions . . . Before I can […]
“With a clue like this, by Christopher, we’ll have Flint’s treasure if it takes a year!” You probably remember the story of Treasure Island, although, depending on your age, your exposure to the story might have come via the original story by Robert Lewis Stephenson, the movie by Disney, the wacky Muppets version, or even […]
Previously, I asked you to spend some time meditating about the elements that would play into your ideal future – what matters most to you, how you want to spend your life, and what you want to do with the time you’re given. Now let’s work on clarifying those elements into your vision of your […]
Remember the analogy you used when we started this quest for self actualization? We compared it to a journey. You’ve packed up your tools, assessed your strengths and weakness and gotten to know your traveling companions. Now take your map out and spread it out on the table in front of you. It’s time to […]
After a life-time of juggling a job, kids, and a busy household, Kate lives alone in a small house in a quite suburb, where she keeps her garden, reads volume after volume of historical fiction, and has her dearest friends over once a month for a Bible study. She is happy.
I heard a song on the radio this morning that really struck home. You might have heard it: 100 Years by the band Five For Fighting. “I’m 15 for a moment, caught between 10 and 20 . . .” The singer is fifteen, then twenty-two, then thirty-three. Then “the sea is high” and he’s forty-five. […]
