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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. 185). Center Street. Kindle Edition . I know that this matter of change is not exciting but I’m glad you stopped to check out the importance of it.   You will change.   Life will bring about change.   And some will be reward because they paid the immediate price to change. Let me ask you, “Are you still living out your New Year’s Resolution?”   Have you paid the price for better health?   If you don’t start exercising or eating right it will catch up with you.   I gained weight over the holidays and my knees are feeling it.   Those extra 15 lbs. are making my walking so much more difficult.  I don't want to be an invalid so I'm paying the price. Have you started going to Church on a regular basis?   Yes it is a discipline but it is so worth it.   Don’t wait till it’s too late when you go to church for your

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. 183). Center Street. Kindle Edition. He gives an illustration… “A letter was returned to the Post Office. Marked on the envelope were the words, ‘He’s dead.’ Through an oversight the letter was again sent to the same address. It was again returned, with the following note: ‘He’s still dead.’ Too often we are like the postal worker, resending that letter yet hoping for different results.” Let’s say you get depressed.   Every time you are depressed you go on a food binge.   It helps for a while then you are depressed because you gained weight.   Figure out what the problem is that is leading you to being depressed.   Go to a Doctor to see if it is a physical problem or go to a Counselor to see if it is an emotional problem. Let’s say you have money problems so you go out and get a better job with more money.   But in

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 (pp. 181-182). Center Street. Kindle Edition . But that is the way we have always done it.   And those words will defeat progress in any person’s world.   This world is not the same, it is constantly changing.   And we need to be flexible and changing with it in order to survive. Most of the time we are afraid of change and that fear keeps us from stepping out.   I like how Malcolm Gladwell in his book called, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants puts it.   He says that, “Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.” Life is tough. The truth is life has a way of bringing us into our future and we find that the way we have