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A thought by John C. Maxwell (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (p. 168). Center Street. Kindle Edition. Excuses, excuses.   What excuse have you used this week not to do something that really you were too lazy or afraid to do? Just be honest. I have used the phrase over and over that an excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.   Just be honest.   I can’t is an excuse, I don’t want to is the truth.   Just be honest.   But also understand that you will miss out on so many things that God has out there for you to experience.   You and I were built to live my faith but there is always some risk and some effort attached to it.   Now something else about failure is that the most successful people fail the most because they try the most so that means they are not failures they just fail a lot.   John also says, “There are two kinds of people ...

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (p. 166). Center Street. Kindle Edition. John is dealing here with keeping the right point of view in difficulties and feeling sorry for yourself can be an easy trap to fall into.    For many it is a normal way to handle all their bad experiences but it doesn’t have to be. He shares that Psychiatrist Frederic Flach in his book Resilience points out that “survivors of bad experiences don’t let the negatives in their lives define them, and they don’t wallow in self-pity. They don’t believe their negative experience is the worst thing in the world. Instead, they think, ‘ What happened to me may have been bad, but other people are worse off. I’m not giving in.’” Now for so many they look at the people who they seem to think have it all together and they think, “Why couldn’t that be me?” not really knowing what they ha...

A thought by John C. Maxwell (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losse s (p. 166). Center Street. Kindle Edition. What if Jesus would have done that?   There was a time when He went back home and the people who saw Him while growing up rejected Him.   That would hurt wouldn’t it?   But He accepted what had happened and used it as a teach moment for His Disciples and He went on to the next town. What about you?   Was there a bad experience when you were young that has defined who you are?   Was there something that a parent said or a teacher said that you use as a basis for a bad self-worth?   Yes those have an impact but they don’t have to define who you are.   Maybe it was a marriage that went sour or a job where you were fired but they don’t have to define who you are. Now the first thing is to accept the fact that you aren’t perfect.   You are human and...