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How Do You Love Difficult People?
How do you love difficult people? It’s easy to love people who are similar to us. In fact, the Bible even tells us that everyone loves people who are like them. The challenge comes when we have to love someone who is different from us, or even our enemies. Our society celebrates connecting with people like us. It celebrates finding your tribe, your culture, or your people, and unfollowing people who have different beliefs than you on social media. Connecting with people whom we easily get along with is great. I like connecting with like minded people and growing and becoming better. I also believe that we are called to…
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What is Personal Growth? How Do You Grow?
What does personal growth mean and how do you do it? Personal growth means a lot of things to different people. To me, personal growth is improving myself. It is not becoming someone I am not. Personal growth is improving upon my gifts and talents, while learning how to soften my rough edges and minimize my weaknesses. One of the first steps to self improvement is to identify what areas you want to improve. Next, create a plan. Along with a plan, it’s a good idea to get a coach or mentor to help you along the way. There are a lot of different coaches for different things. As I…
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Are You a Perfect Leader? No One Is Perfect
Have you ever thought that your leaders were supposed to be perfect? Have you ever had a perfect leader? Do you think you need to be perfect in order to be a leader? People put too much pressure on their leaders, and some leaders put too much pressure on themselves. No one is perfect. If they think they are, they are being prideful. The key to being a good leader is knowing your strengths and weaknesses and surrounding yourself with people who excel in areas you do not. This will compliment and complete your leadership ability. John Maxwell says, “When you think you can do it all, you will try…
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Unity, A Powerful Force: Why Unity Is Important
We were designed to be in relationship with other people. If we want to build relationships we need to find unifying causes to draw us closer together. The bible tells us to do nothing out of rivalry or conceit (Phil 2:3), but to dwell together in unity (Psalms 133:1). I’ve worked for a couple companies where the leaders were always pointing fingers and blaming others. It was not an enjoyable environment. I have also worked for companies where the leaders reminded everyone that we were a team. When something went wrong the team rallied together to create a strategy to try to fix the situation and prevent it from happening…
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Reflections of 2020 – New Beginnings
As I reflect on 2020, I am not focused as much on the pandemic and all the bad things that happened this year. I don’t mean to downplay them. Nothing was what anyone expected and many normals or traditions have been shaken. I acknowledge the hard times, but choose not to stay there. My belief is that the hard times help to refine us into something stronger or more mature. As I reflect, I am drawn to remember all the ways that 2020 has created new beginnings in my life and has refined my family. I invite you to join me in my reflection of 2020 and think of how…
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Words are Powerful; Are Yours Empowering or Destroying?
Our words are powerful! The power of our words is stronger than many of us know and understand. Did you know that God spoke the world, as we know it, into existence? Have you ever thought that your words have the power to build up or to destroy? Did you know that as you speak death over someone, it has negative power over them? The bible even has many places where it tells us about the power of our words. We can’t just say whatever we want and have it happen, but our words influence the atmosphere around us. I want the people around me to have sweet, ripe lives,…
