Larger Perspective I find that we often get hung up on the little petty things of life and we allow them to create a lot of stress in our lives.  I recently got back from a Mission trip to Honduras and it helped put things into Perspective for me. The village of San Lorenzo just got electricity about a year ago. For the first...

Road Blocks This is the season for Road construction so there are a lot of Orange barrels and barricades getting in the way.  Sometimes I feel that is true in the rest of my life as well. There are things in my life getting in the way of where I want to go in life. Most of these roadblocks in my life are between my...

War on Terror The war on terror took a turn this week with the death of  Bin laden. Many people are talking about the success and others are talking about the possible retaliations. We live in very difficult and uncertain times. The only thing you have control of, is how you react to the news. We can’t control...

LOSS & DEATH In the past two weeks I have had two good friends pass away.  They will both be sorely missed by all of their friends and family.  We who are left behind are experiencing a great LOSS.  It affects us deeply.  How do we cope with losses like theses?  The thing we don’t want to do is probably the...

Words From DAD My dad used to say, “Son, just do your Best.”  That use to make me mad because I never knew what was my best.  I also wanted RESULTS not just a lot of effort and possible failure.  I have since learned that focusing only on the results causes us a lot of Worry and Stress.  I can’t make...

Success What is the Key to success?  Let me ask you one question;  Have you ever Failed at anything?  I hope so.  “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”  Dale Carnegie Nothing like a good failure to teach us the lessons we need...

Core Beliefs are like Maps Maps help you get to where you are trying to go.  When a Map is out of date it causes you to take paths that you wouldn’t normally take.  Well your Core beliefs are like that.  Often they contain errors or are out of date and they force you to make decisions that you probably shouldn’t make....

Get Outside Yourself Americans have this uncanny ability to think of only ourselves most of the time.  I’m not saying we are not a generous people because if there is a tragedy we are there.  But when our focus is almost always about ourselves we tend to forget how insignificant most of our problems are.  We then get...

How’s Your ATTITUDE?? Research has shown that our attitude often makes the difference between success and failure.  The Placebo effect is very active in our lives.  If we BELIEVE that something will work the chances of success goes up significantly.  If your brain believes a medication (really a sugar pill) will work it has a...

Are You HAPPY? Happiness is a lot in our control.  Yes, you have a choice to be happy.  This doesn’t mean t that you pretend that nothing bad ever happens but you don’t have to let bad things Keep you down.  Here are a few tips that can help. First, don’ WORRY about  things you anticipate will be...