Tag: life balance
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Wanna live healthy in 2024? … Avoid AI at all costs!
In my pursuit of rest and life balance over the past four years, one of the most significant changes I made was in the area of diet. I followed a paleo diet for a while, then switched to keto. I dropped wheat, flour, seed oils, most sugar added, and processed foods from my diet. 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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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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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,…
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Are you a Seagull or a Steward?
Are you a seagull or a steward? If you ever want to truly find rest and life balance when it comes to money, possessions, and a materialistic mindset, you will come to recognize that ownership is highly overrated. There’s a scene in the movie Finding Nemo where a pelican is on the dock and Marlin,…
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Spiritual Ketosis
In my journey toward rest and life balance I have made both internal and external changes along the way. Physically I made a permanent lifestyle change to adopt healthy eating habits. I did a ton of research and the first decision I made was that my purpose for healthy eating was not to lose weight…
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Be present
Of all the lessons I’ve learned over the past four years in my journey toward rest and life balance, “being present” and “living in the present” have been the most difficult and challenging. Weather it’s remaining engaged and present during a meeting with leadership or staff members at work, a conversation with my wife, one…
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Cancel Culture Vs Christ Culture
Imagine if Jesus participated in today’s “cancel culture”? One sin and your canceled. Colossians 2:14 says, having canceled the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Do you cancel and write people off? For…
The Rest Stop 