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"Success can have a way of distorting our view of reality."

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 (Kindle Locations 697-698). Center Street. Kindle Edition. That can be so true. John shared that it seems that most Nobel Prize winners never did anything significant after winning the prize. He quotes T. S. Eliot, “The Nobel is a ticket to one’s own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.” I remember watching young kids back in Little League who had developed before the other boys so they were the stars at that time. And I saw some of the other kids who had to work harder pass those kids as they got older because they had to work for their success and it paid off. Harvey Penick the great Hall of Fame golf teacher in his Little Red Book tells of how you should not focus on your last shot. If it was really good you will mess up on the next one. You must continue to focus a head. P...

"It’s easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success."

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 (Kindle Location 630). Center Street. Kindle Edition. I have a lot of phrases that I say over and over that help me but I’m sure my family gets tired of hearing. A couple phrases from my dad were, “No paper is so thin that it doesn’t have two sides to it.” Another is, “A short pencil is better than a long memory.” Some others that I say are, “A cinch by the inch and hard by the yard” and then “An excuse is a skin of a reason, stuffed with a lie.” Excuses, excuses, “It’s easier to go from failure to success that it is from excuses to success.” So many people get stuck in their life because of their excuses. Of course there is some truth in every excuse but there are also lies that keep you from going forward. Now failure is tough, it really is but it is not the end. ...

"The most important person you ever talk to is yourself, so be careful what you say."

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 (Kindle Locations 245-246). Center Street. Kindle Edition. That is so true. What we say to ourselves go a long way to determine our response and our action or lack of action. John continues, “I believe that in times of loss, it’s easy to get caught up in thinking about how we could have or should have done things differently. Our self-talk can become very negative. The more negative it becomes, the larger our losses appear to be to us. If our self-talk is angry, destructive, or guilt producing, we become even less capable of breaking free of the negative cycle.” I was always one who would naturally beat up myself after some negative thing happened to me until one day I decided to stop. I saw that I was my own worst enemy so I determined to become my biggest supporter. Even when something negative happened...

"The quality that distinguishes a successful person from an unsuccessful one who is otherwise like him is the capacity to manage disappointment and loss."

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 (Kindle Locations 208-209). Center Street. Kindle Edition. He goes on to say, “Too often losing goes to our heads. It defeats us, and we have trouble coming up with solutions to our challenges. As the losses build up, they become more of a burden. We regret the losses of yesterday. We fear the losses of tomorrow. Regret saps our energy. We can’t build on regret. Fear for the future distracts us and fills us with apprehension.” But if we can learn from them we will have surmounted one of the great obstacles in living life. We will all make mistakes, dumb mistakes. It goes with living but they can be our friends instead of our enemies. Yes it can be embarrassing but it can also be a time of growth and confidence. There is always an answer if we search for it. It may be humbling but there is an ...

"The more difficult thing is to listen and love in spite of others' actions."

A thought by Dr. Kevin Leman (2013-02-01) from his book, Way of the Wise, The: Simple Truths forLiving Well (Kindle Location 230). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Now that is very true. I am dealing with this right now. It is so easy to stop caring when you don’t like what someone is doing but it would be easy for Jesus to do the same with us. I have a person at one of my Coffee shops who told me of something he is doing in relation to a child and when he told me about it I really gave him grief. Now people doing something toward children or abusing women really gets to me. I am not too accepting of that but I know that God has put this person in my life and rejecting him will do no good but showing love will. But it is so hard sometimes. Well I haven’t seen them since Friday and tomorrow I will see him. I think I really needed this. Thanks God for reinforcing my task. I will need you to help me not to accept...