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Month: October 2017
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Offering your best
Last Sunday we started a discussion on overcoming discouragement. Discouragement hides out in our heart like a dormant virus. When given a slight opening, it springs forth, quickly escalating. Last Sunday, I presented a new idea: one of the reasons we feel discouraged is because we confuse “being the best,” “doing your best,” and “offering your best.”
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Overcoming discouragement
Discouragement is a difficult disposition to overcome. It creeps up on us in our family, work, or personal life. We don’t want to feel discouraged. We do what we can to hide it, deny it, or overcompensate for it. We understand that attitude is a choice. But so often, no matter how we spin it, we feel like we just don’t measure up. There is an area of our life we just can’t conquer or make progress in. And if we do make progress in that area, another area falls back at the same time. The result is that discouragement still resides within us. It didn’t move out; it just changed rooms.
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Simple Questions
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Urgent Matters
In 1998, I was given an opportunity by my employer, Ulteig Engineers, to take a class on effective management. The class was designed for current and future managers at consultant engineering companies. The class was very helpful to my personal and professional life and I am so thankful Ulteig invested in me. I still refer back to my notebook from that class.
One idea that has stuck with me that I have expanded on is Stephen Covey’s time management matrix. While time management is important, I believe life management is even more important. So, I use Covey’s matrix in the context of life management.
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Game Plan
As a child, teenager and adult my greatest fear was public speaking. In sixth grade, I read in front of my class for 3 minutes until the room started spinning and I nearly passed out. In eighth grade, I had intense stomach pain. My mom took me to the doctor thinking it may be my appendix. We discovered the pain, although very real, was the result of anxiety about an upcoming speech in English. As a new pastor, in my mid-30s, I threw up every Sunday morning for four years. I still get nervous every time I talk in front of people whether a group of 10 or 1,000.
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Is there something more to life?
Most people, at different points in their life, wonder “Is there a purpose for my life? Does my today lead to anything different tomorrow? Or is life simply a treadmill of activity sprinkled with joyful memories, some regrets and then life ends?”
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