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Reflection: Is it Worth it?
It was only a little over a month and a half ago that I decide to add ads to this blog. Is it worth it?…
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It’s natural to only focus on achievement. Did we achieve our goal or not? This quote, by Zig Ziglar, reminds us that it’s more than…
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Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
If you were to look up the word faith in the dictionary, you’ll find something along the lines of having complete trust and confidence in…
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Living Life Poetically: Remember the Storms
“Remember the Storms” is an homage to all the challenging times (or storms) we’ve been through. Specifically, the ones we’ve overcome; or perhaps, we’ve come…
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Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.
The world-famous inventor, Thomas Edison, is known for a few quotes about failure and perseverance. This quote is perhaps not as well known as the…
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
You have a dream or life goal that’s constantly being pushed off for later. Perhaps it’s to go somewhere, see something, or do something. But…
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Living Life Poetically: If Only
This poem is fairly short compared to the others. And the introduction to it will be short as well. “If Only” explores a simple question.…
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
A talent isn’t necessarily something flashy like being able to walk on a tightrope or do backflips blindfolded. Rather, talents can be as simple as…
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
This seems counterintuitive. It’s more natural to think that if an airplane takes off in the same direction as the wind, the wind will make…
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Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
This quote by Helen Keller (n. 1880) is very indicative of the kind of life she lived. Before the age of two, she became both…
