Category: Practices
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Yes, I Have!
I thought I’d give you an update on a couple of decisions I’ve recently made. Over the past six weeks in two blog posts, I shared about a decision I was considering. One was whether to continue my gym membership in my October 20th post “Did Jesus have a six-pack?” And the other decision was, if I…
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The relationship that will rob you of rest.
There is a relationship that will wear you out, stress you out, and rob you of well-being, peace, and rest. What relationship is that you ask? It’s any relationship that is based on “performance” to gain approval or acceptance. Over the past four years in my pursuit toward rest and life balance one of my…
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Improving Your Serve
Tennis anyone? If you’ve ever played tennis, one of the vital skills to learn is the serve. A weak serve will nearly always lead to defeat. Top players will spend many hours mastering it. My question for you today is, “How’s your “serve” and what are you doing to improve your “serve” in life? A…
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Technology Rules! or Technology Rules.
In the game of football an encroachment violation occurs when, before the snap, a defensive player illegally crosses the line of scrimmage and makes contact with an opponent or has a clear path to the quarterback. To encroach means to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits. It can also mean to intrude, infringe or…
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Did Jesus have a six-pack?
Lately I’ve been rethinking if I want to continue my gym membership. Right now, I’m leaning toward no. I had this thought recently pop into my head, “I wonder, if Jesus had a six pack?” My conclusion, yes, I think He did. Now, I don’t think Jesus did crunches, planks, px90 or other ab exercises…
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Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, it’s off to work we go.
Heigh-Ho, Heigh Ho, it’s off to work we go. As I spoke those words perhaps your mind flashed back to the scene in the Disney movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, where the dwarfs with picks on their shoulders whistle and sing as they march off to work. This past Labor Day I reflected…
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An Attitude of Gratitude
Expressing gratitude and thanksgiving is one of the most encouraging and edifying things we can do for a fellow human being. Few things lift our spirits more than being on the receiving end of genuine expressions of thanks, gratitude and appreciation. When it comes to life-balance, an attitude of gratitude is a character trait we…
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Time is short
We’ve all heard the statement time is short. Or time is short, make the most of it. Actually, time is short when you waste a lot of it. Roman philosopher Seneca said it well – “Life is long if you know how to use it. It is not that we have a short space of…
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Conscious consumption
Ok, I have a bunch of thoughts going through my head right now. I’m going to bring up several things that at first may not seem to be connected but stay with me. 1) I can’t stand it when I’m at the gym and some guy at the sink is running the faucet full blast…
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Simply Simplify
The word simplify means to make something less complex or complicated, plainer and easier. You may have heard the story that during the height of the space race in the 1960s, The U.S. spent millions to create a pen that would write in space while the Russians simply used a pencil. It’s a great story,…
The Rest Stop 