What hinders you from growing? Over the past few weeks, we have been looking at the disciplines for success. These are some of the things that you need in your life in order to have success in reaching your goals. Each of these is in response to the things that hinder us in our growth. In this post, I listed seven things that can hinder you in achieving your goals. I was thinking of things in myself and things…
This is the perfect pad to organize my to-do list. So I put one in the shopping basket. Let’s ignore the fact that I have numerous other pads at home that would work. Someone told me this was the best pad to organize your to-do list. I wanted it; I was not content. Maybe this was a better way. Guess what, now I have a basket full of pads of paper to declutter. We will save that for another time…
It is hard to believe that it is the end of July. Where has the month gone? Where has the year gone? Here is a quick review of what happened in July. Miss K finished school and is enjoying her summer break. The weeks leading up to the end of school were challenging as we waiting to find out where she would have a school placement for autumn. (I won’t go into all the details but most of this has…
What does faith have to do with achieving your goals? Why do I need faith to achieve my goals? Is faith a discipline? Fear is one of the heart issues that hinder us from achieving our goals. Fear can hold us back. It can paralyze us. Do we need to overcome fear to achieve our goals? What fears do you have? What does faith have to do with achieving your goals? If fear, holds us back then it is faith…
The message that the world tells us is all about me. Making sure that I get “my time”. That is “my money” to spend. My goals and my plans. It is all about me. But that is not the way we are to live. As Christians, we are to give, to be generous. Our focus should be on others and not ourselves. Christ has given us an example of giving and living generously. His interaction with the Samaritan woman was…