Tag: motivational
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Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda… But Never Did
Last Friday morning I was walking downtown and saw a very vibrant rainbow peering through the clouds. It was not just small, short, unfinished rainbow but it was a large, bright, colorful one that arced across the sky. It was a Kodak moment type of rainbow, one where it was worth stopping for a moment…
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Expect Progress Not Miracles
“It’s so easy.” This was a phrase an outside consultant repeated over and over to us during training at work. He was teaching us how to use a new program and with every new topic or question he would start with that phrase, “It’s so easy.” Yet no matter how many times he would repeat…
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Michael Scott was Right, It’s About People
I loved the tv show The Office (US version). It was a well written show that portrayed the office life in all its fullness, quirks and all. Even with all the over embellished antics the coworkers did everything was still very plausible in an actual workplace. The key to the dynamic was Michael Scott –…
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Becoming a Good Steward
Stewardship, unfortunately, is not a word we use regularly anymore. When is the last time you heard someone talk about being a good steward? It is a shame we do not use it more often though, because it carries with it a character trait we should all have. And like most basics of life, just…
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Like a Circus Bear in its Cage
A few years ago my pastor used an example to show how people can get trapped in their minds. The illustration was that of a circus bear that had been in a cage most of its life. When the bear got too old for the circus it was taken to the woods to be set…
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Endless Music on 88 Piano Keys
A few years ago I used to listen to Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! on NPR. It is an entertaining show that quizzes people on the latest headline news. Because my travel patterns have changed I have not listened to it in a while. A few weeks ago I decided to listen to a few…
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When Trying to do Better Puts Holes in Walls
I have lived in my house for almost six years. When I first moved in I did some thinking about how I wanted it to look and I bought a few things to go on the walls. However, my house has never been complete. The walls in my bedroom have been bare and I only…
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Destined to Fail? Or Motivated to Succeed?
There have been many studies correlating one’s environment growing up to one’s success later in life. From parental support to economic status, there are factors that do affect us as we are growing up – the less supportive and less economically one is the less likely one is to succeed. It is harder to show…
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They Don’t Know Where You’ve Been, God Bless ‘Em
When I was in Nepal trekking up and down the mountains was a tough chore. We would go up 3,000 feet just to go back down the 3,000 feet, and then go back up 2,800 feet. This was life for ten days – tough trekking up and down the Himalayas to reach our destination. As…
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Moving Forward 3, Falling Back 2, But Never Quitting
I remember in school we were given a math problem about a snail in a well. The well was 10 feet deep and the snail was at the bottom. The snail could climb up 3 feet during the day but would fall back 2 feet during the night. The question is how many days does…