Category: Purpose
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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…
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Guide on the side or sage on the stage?
Recently I noticed the number of times a day I was checking The Rest Stop website and You Tube analytics. How many people visited the site, liked or subscribed on You Tube and Instagram? Were the metrics trending up or down? I thought maybe I should do some ad boosts or create a promotion campaign…
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Singapore, Seoul, Seattle
Recently I returned home from an overseas trip. My return flight took me from Singapore to Seoul Korea, and back on American soil in Seattle, Washington. Wow what a contrast! My experience at the Changi airport in Singapore and the Inchon airport in South Korea was stellar. The service was outstanding. From the gate agents…
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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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The “Why” of it all – part 2
What is the chief end of man? The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. I’ll never forget the evening; it was early February 1997. I was hosting my weekly talk show at a Christian station in Miami, Florida. My guest was sharing the teachings by a special speaker at…
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The “Why” of it all
You’ve likely heard of Simon Sinek author of Start with Why and Find Your Why. His TED Talk “How great leaders inspire action” in which he shares the golden circle showing “why” in the center then “how” is the next circle and “what” as the outer circle has over 16 million views on YouTube. In…
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Aggravated and ticked at God
I mentioned in an earlier post that over the past four years I have studied the Scriptures and read thirty-five books and numerous other writings about rest and life balance. References to rest and life balance are found throughout the Old and New Testaments. Certainly, the Author of life is our final authority on this…
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