Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: devotional, life coaching, personal development | Tags: discipleship, freindship, personal growth | 1 Comment »
“Surround yourself with good people who balance out your weaknesses with their strengths.”
- Thomas F. Frist, Jr.
The people we spend the most time with, the ones who are the closest to us, have the greatest influence on our lives. (See Proverbs 13:20 .)
Surround yourself with good people who will accept you, challenge you, help you, love you, are different from you, encourage you, inspire you, respect you, bring out the best in you, appreciate you, care for you, motivate you, forgive you, surprise you, listen to you, trust you, amaze you, stand beside you, understand you, need you, and who will be completely honest with you.
And see what happens!
Posted: January 31st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: devotional, life coaching, personal development | Tags: discipleship, life coaching, personal growth | No Comments »
“Have you stopped growing?”
A few years ago I was standing in line at the grocery store with my son, Parker. Without me realizing what he was going to say he turned to an elderly woman behind us and said, “Have you stopped growing?”
I don’t think she really heard him. I was totally embarrassed! Earlier in the week we had discussed how we stop growing, physically, as we get older.
What about you? Are you still growing? Intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, relationally? We may stop growing physically, but we never really have to stop growing!
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!” (2 Peter 3:18)
Keep growing! I hope you have a great week!
Posted: January 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: books, leadership, my life, personal development | Tags: personal development, personal growth, personal productivity | No Comments »
A few days ago Amazon.com had a great book sale so I ordered a couple of books that I’ve been wanting to read for several months now.
One of them is Today Matters by John Maxwell. The subtitle is: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrow’s Success. The premise or key point of the book is that all we have is today! We can’t go back and re-live yesterday and we can’t travel through time and determine tomorrow! So, Maxwell writes, “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” (p. 14)
Maxwell argues that if we set the right priorities, make the right decisions, and follow through with discipline TODAY. . . tomorrow will take care of itself!
If you are looking for a great book to kick off the New Year. . . I highly recommend Today Matters! I’m only on page 83 (out of 302) and I’m already sold!
Happy New Year!
Posted: May 11th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: blog news, life coaching, personal development, quotes, time management | Tags: personal development, personal growth | No Comments »
I recently launched a new personal development community called Your Life in Focus. This great new online 
community offers articles, links, videos and podcasts to help you (and me) get your life in focus!
It’s totally free!
Each month will feature a new topic. The topic for May is Personal Finance. The topic for June is Eating Healthy. Upcoming topics will include Time Management, Getting Organized, Exercise and more!
Click here to visit this great new site.
