Category: Priorities
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I Love Mondays!
I love Mondays! I also look forward to Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Are you one of those people who loathe Monday mornings and the beginning a new workweek? Do you live for the weekend? Sometime around noon on Wednesday does a smile break across your face as you declare, “It’s “hump” day!”…
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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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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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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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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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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,…
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If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.
If you don’t prioritize your life, others will gladly do it for you. The subject of setting priorities is a recurring theme on The Rest Stop and is one of the top two to three disciplines that leads to rest and greater life balance. Perhaps the statement I make most often is “Don’t prioritize your…
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Pay attention to “a tension”
Don’t ignore it. Pay attention to “a tension” in your life. A dictionary definition of tension is the act of stretching or straining. The state of being stretched or strained. Tension can be mental or emotional strain, pressure or stress. Often tension is present in relationships. And then there is spiritual tension. We all have…
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Are you Driven or Directed?
Are you driven or directed? A driven person is often seen as a “type A” personality, a hard charger. We picture a no-nonsense CEO, a demanding executive, a relentless high-performance salesman, or even a college student who considers anything less than perfect grades failure. Someone who pushes themselves to the limit, works a ridiculous number…
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