Category: Principles
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Of course, I’m Pro Choice!
Did you panic or want to tune me out when you saw today’s blog title? Please don’t! I despise it when a group or political movement coopt and manipulate a perfectly good phrase such as “pro-choice” to promote or further their propaganda campaigns and agendas. In the abortion debate (which isn’t a debate at all,…
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Risky Business
Are you a risk taker? For me, not so much. My personality and temperament are much more wired toward stability, safety, and security. For instance, I’m not much of a risk taker in the area of finances and take a much more conservative approach to investments rather than being speculative. You also won’t see me…
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CYOUL8R Possessions or People?
Saturday morning, I was on my way to visit a friend. While driving, a late model shiny sports car abruptly pulled over into my lane ahead of me. The license plate read CYOUL8R. In other words, – “See you later.” I shook my head and couldn’t help but wonder, wow, you spent 80 grand or…
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Stop talking with your Thumbs.
Are you “talking” with your thumbs more than you are with your mouth? It used to be if you wanted to “chat” with someone it meant you were seeking to speak with them in conversation, one on one. Now a days the word “chat” has taken on a whole new meaning. We have Chatbot, ChatGPT,…
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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 Bilt(more) Estate
Recently my wife Tammy and I celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary. We spent several days in Asheville, North Carolina. It was a relaxing and restful time. During our trip we visited and toured the Biltmore Estate. We’ve lived in North Carolina for 20 years and had never visited this historic house. The Bilt(more) Estate, with the…
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Live The Truth, NOT live your own truth.
Last week my wife Tammy and I spent a few days in the mountains of North Carolina to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. It was a restful and relaxing time. On our third day though we had a brief period of stress. After a leisurely breakfast we were walking along an old section of Asheville that…
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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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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…
The Rest Stop 