make goals a reality
Success Strategies

5 Steps to Make Your Goal a Reality

Most of us don’t have trouble picking good goals.  We are able to pick appropriate goals that suit our natural skills, and that simply require us to stretch a little bit.  Where most of us get stuck is in figuring out how to accomplish the goal that we’ve chosen. The…

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Success Strategies

Humility Is the True Key to Success

We often think of highly successful people as folks with big egos.  They are people with confidence in spades who attack life and take no prisoners, as they say.  But, in fact, the opposite is true.  It actually takes humility to achieve real success. Consider the following ways in which…

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Personal Development

Healing Your Mind from the Past

No one goes through life unscathed.  We all have experienced things that we wish we hadn’t.  And we’ve all seen cruelties that we wish we could un-see.  The past is always imperfect. For example, as a child, I witnessed interactions between my parents which were awful.  I wish I could…

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Happiness

Embracing the Seasons of Life

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1 The hardest part of growing older is accepting that certain chapters of life are done.  You can’t revisit them.  There are no do-overs of the seasons of life.  Accepting that is challenging. …

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Success Strategies

You Have What You Need to Succeed

Many of us live in fear of “not being good enough.” We fear that we haven’t been given the gifts and talents that we need to succeed in life.  Instead of trusting that we have everything that we need to accomplish our goals, we live in fear of not being…

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