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A thought by John C. Maxwell, (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 6). Center Street. Kindle Edition. Yesterday afternoon after I had written my blog I was reading it and realized that I had left a word out and I had also misspelled a couple of words.   I had already sent it out on the internet super highway with these mistakes.   Now I had a couple of options.   I could have gone to my dashboard and deleted the whole blog feeling ashamed and defeated vowing to never write a blog ever again or I could add the word and fix the misspelled words and then repost and come back again today striving to do better proof reading and here I am today.   Now I don’t like making mistakes but at least I am trying to make a difference, mistakes and all.   I like another statement that John made, “To become intentional about growing, (which we were dealing with in yesterday’s blog) expect to make mistakes every day, and welcome

A thought by John C Maxwell,. (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of   Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 3). Center Street. Kindle Edition . You see there is work in improvement. Do you every watch any of those TV shows where those people are walking through Home Depot dreaming about what they could do in their house and this guy comes up and he says he can do it in three days.   They then have to make a decision of whether they want it or not.   I mean they are going to have to kill themselves for three days in order for it to happen.   And some people don’t take the risk and lose out. On my other blog, bill’s front porch , I just finished looking at setting goals at the beginning of the new year to make improvements in ourselves.   Only 5% of people set goals and they are the most successful people around.     They realize that you cannot reach your potential without being intentional about it. Now the real reason why I write this blo

A thought by John C Maxwell, (2012-10-02) from his book, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential (p. 24). Center Street. Kindle Edition. I feel at this time of the year it is important to do some reflection, reevaluation and then some refocus and repentance before the New Year starts.   If I am living for the right reason then I can face anything.   The right reason gives me confidence. You see, if you are doing something from a wrong motive there is an undercurrent of guilt which causes me to believe that I don’t deserve any good to happen in my life.   So when things go wrong I believe that it’s because I am being punished.   I don’t deserve anything good so I am always waiting for the bad things to happen.   But with right motives I see the things that will go wrong as learning times or strengthening times that will eventually help me to reach my goal.   The wrong things are not enemies but friends.   Wrong reasons can breed discourage