Staying focused

In about 30 days we will already be through 1/4 of the year 2014. WHAT!!! How did that happen?

We don’t hear anything about New Year’s resolutions anymore and it seems as though we find ourselves back in the same ruts of life as before. No matter how great our intentions were at the beginning of the year to change things, we still seem to get bogged down in areas of our lives. For some, maybe you did make some changes and you actually made progress. Although now you may be slowing down or stopped moving altogether.

Does that sound familiar? It looks way too familiar for me! I have definitely move forward in areas of my life this year, but I find

Toastmasters speech

This is a speech I gave at a recent Toastmasters meeting. I hope you enjoy it.

How would the world look if everyone used their gifts and talent? How would your world look if you were using your gifts and talents? When we use the gifts we received at birth and the talents we’ve acquired in life. That’s what I call “Painting your Masterpiece”.

Everyone has a Masterpiece to paint, because we have all been given a

Cultivating your mind

About 5 years ago I was reading a book that caused me to think about my thinking. I realized I hadn’t been intentional about the thoughts I was having. I always tried to keep my mind on Jesus, I just never seemed to have a strategy about it. I seemed to let the (weeds) bad thoughts grow out of control and then later I was having to go in and try to straighten things up. Damage control. 

It was then, that I saw my mind as a field, a mind field.

2 easy ways you can change the future

Can you remember words that were spoken to you as a child – that still hurt today or can you remember words that were spoken to you as a child that really encouraged you. These words may have been

Fighting the Frozen Chicken

Are you fighting the frozen chicken?

One day I decided to

2 Things God is keeping from you

What’s holding you back?

Don’t let your past shackle you from your future.

I had a friend who believed he had ruined his life by a choice he had made years earlier. He had chosen not to

Painting your Masterpiece

“Are you painting YOUR Masterpiece?”

In Bronnie Ware’s book “The top 5 regrets of the dying”, she tells the story of her time working in palliative care. She spent weeks to months taking care of people who went home to die. Over the years she learned many lessons, but

Where ya headed?

We are all going somewhere and will eventually get there, but it won’t be by accident, it is the road we are taking.

Have you ever watched the show “I shouldn’t be alive”? It has great stories of people overcoming insane obstacles when the odds are completely against them.

One show tells the story of Ken Jones former British Paratrooper who survives an

Using your talents

A basic definition of symbiotic – two creatures needing each other to survive.

One example is the Goby fish and the Blind/Pistol shrimp.  Each was created with certain talents that just happen to fulfill the needs of the other.  The Blind shrimp is as you can imagine, blind. This makes him an easy target for predators, but one talent he does have is