People can’t wait to advise you on things they have never done and have no idea how to do. Talk is cheap, and people love to blabber about anything and everything. When I first got divorced, people who had never married started giving me marriage advice. When I first started fasting, fat people gave me…
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A form of prayer I am just discovering and started practicing is being completely honest and direct with God. I am stating directly and honestly how I genuinely feel and what I actually think. Oh, I must tell you that I love it. “God, I don’t understand, and I don’t like this season you are…
Winning.
Develop an “unhealthy” obsession for winning. I used to wake up in the morning and start worrying about money, relationships, health, my job, my family, you name it. I remember having times when I would start worrying about the position of Mercury in the sky. Is Mercury in retrograde again? I used to ask myself….
Nelly or Nancy.
Negative, Nelly or Nancy, take your pick. Don’t you just love them? Yup, me neither! This is a topic I thought long and hard about because I have a negative Nelly in my close circle, which I can not avoid or ignore. For me, my negative Nelly is my mother. May God bless her soul…
To-Do.
Some people like having written down daily, weekly, or even monthly to-do lists. Some of us have those to-do lists in our minds. There are benefits to writing your to-do’s down on paper and getting them out of your head. When you put your to-do’s or problems down on paper, they magically get smaller because…
Present.
“You don’t give what you have; you give what you are.” ~ Arsenie Papacioc I love this quote. Giving starts the process of receiving. What you put out will inevitably come back to you. You give those around you what you have in your heart. If your heart is filled with fear and bitterness, you’ll…
Nobility.
Ernest Hemingway said: “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” I love this quote because it is simple and complex at the same time, but it is also true. Comparing yourself to others and competing with others outside of sports events is…
Imperfect and free.
Every time I try something, and I fail at it, the only one that takes a hit and suffers is my oversensitive, overinflated, big, stupid ego. Let me give you an example. Let’s say you’ve been single for a while. You needed to be single and spend some time alone to reevaluate what is important…
Knight.
Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear. Love and fear can not occupy the same vessel at the same time. Gratitude and worry are another excellent example. It has been said that the people who accomplish the most in life are the ones who are constantly running from something and…
King.
You have to become a king in your heart long before you become a king in the world, and you do that by developing the discipline to do all the small things in your life, in the position you are holding right now, no matter how insignificant that position may seem, with great care and…