Encouragement, purpose focus, and other thoughts that grow up hearts open to pursue the extraordinary
Quote of the day for Monday, May 1, 2017 You can find the possibilities or you can find the problems. The difference isn’t the circumstances but the focus” “Can you see it?” My son and I were waiting to pick up his brothers and he was pointing at the sky. I had been watching the…
Quote of the day for Friday, April 28, 2017 America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln It always works this way – the real damage happens from within. I have watched my family stand up together against…
Quote of the day for Thursday, April 27, 2017 Think big. Always do your best. Keep trying to figure out better.” It starts with a dream. Every day I encourage my sons to dream – dream about what others declare impossible or what others dare not try. Dreams are the building blocks that will create…
Quote of the day for Wednesday, April 26, 2017 Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love you.” – Bethany Jett There will always be people that don’t like me – not matter how awesome I may be or how helpful I may become. Some people will not…
Quote of the day for Tuesday, April 25, 2017 Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” – Anne Sweeney Back in my younger days – when gas was cheaper and I had no real responsibilities – my friends and I would fill…
Quote of the day for Monday, April 24, 2017 There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life; and that desire is praiseworthy.” – Wallace D. Wattles “What do you really want?” I thought about that question for a…
Quote of the day for Friday, April 21, 2017 Our best – no matter how good – is incomplete if we leave God out of the picture.”- Dr. Ben Carson, M.D. We are all created on purpose and for a purpose. It is not an accident. It is not a coincidence. It is Divine Design….
Quote of the day for Thursday, April 20, 2017 Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance, but lost time is gone forever.” – Samuel Smiles I looked back at yesterday and saw the remnants of wasted moments scattered around. I had literally sat around and watched the…
Quote of the day for Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt The first time I dove off the high dive – my heart leapt into my throat. I had completed the dive dozens of…
I can’t complain about the insanity of the noise while adding to it. I have to make a choice to let it go, to walk away, or to accept that some people are in it for the argument, not the revelation. The distraction of the noise holds me back from what I need to be…