You can reach your success when you define your success, believe in the success, and dare to take the purposeful actions to reach your success. Find your success a few choices from where you are right now. # # # I had a plan. It was a good plan. It followed all the points of…
Your focus makes the difference. If you want to move from where you are, then you have to start with a shift in focus. # # # I mentioned before how chaotic 2020 had been for my family. About the time I felt like I had my footing, someone or something jerked the rug out…
Make your way one little bit at a time. It’s up to you. The choice is yours. You can if you will. I believe all of these sayings. Meditating on these ideas has helped me make my plans. I know in my knower it’s within my grasp. But I haven’t put my belief into full…
Develop a hunger for God that drives your focus and actions. The more you focus in one direction, the more that focus will dictate your needs and wants. Determine to make God your focus and drive. # # # Watch today’s episode of #GrowingHOPE The Word starts my day. It’s been that way for several…
World-changing hope is rooted in knowledge and understanding. If you don’t know what you know, then you can’t hope for what you don’t know (or know). It takes an investment in knowledge that’s molded into understanding to stand firm in hope. # # # Watch today’s #GrowingHOPE episode I saw a commercial when I was…
A rebuilding plan provides the focus for hope that gets you through. When it all collapses around you or when the rug gets jerked from under you, create a plan to rebuild so you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep on keeping on. # # # Watch today’s episode of #GrowingHOPE It…
Evaluate the moment, so you are positioned to make the most of where you are and with what you have. If you are looking for an excuse not to, it’s there. If you’re looking for a way to get it done, it’s there as well. What you look for, you will find, so look at…
Nothing changes until something changes, right? And yet, nothing changes, and I still sit here expecting something to change. The same ole same ole won’t cut it if I don’t want the same ole same ole anymore. Early in October, I spoke to the Houston Writers Guild. My only surviving work device had been giving…
You have to choose to avoid the chaos. And when you can’t avoid it, ignore it. The chaos fills the space with noise and distractions, all of which are designed to keep you off balance and out of alignment with your unique design. It’s not complicated. It is a choice The noise blocks out the…
You need to release the masks. Masks never protect. They hide the truth and create a false reality. You never see the whole picture when you’re behind a mask (or the people around you are masked). # # # I attended the first Happening in Alabama in 1987. I didn’t plan on going and had…