#40: AGE AIN’T NOTHING BUT A NUMBER… Lately, I have found myself having the most insightful, emotional and powerful conversations with people half my physical age. As I release them from the confinement of what I believed they could know, feel or teach me at their age, I unleash myself from the limits of my […]
#41: HEAVY IS THE HEART THAT HOLDS A GRUDGE. Learn to let stuff go. Holding a grudge is like holding a weight…it fatigues you. If you love someone, discuss the conflict and reconcile. If they aren’t that important, release them and yourself. But being mad drives you mad if you think that your mad affects […]
#42: TAKE YOUR TIME, DO IT RIGHT… Sometimes, in the rush to prove you are right or that someone else was wrong, you can run, rush and ruin a great thing trying to prove it was a good idea. When you can sit with an idea, a vision or a thought and let all of […]
#43: TRUST THE CHOOSER! I have spent a great deal of time, effort, energy and study trying to surmise how and when people lose their trust. Did God fail (?) them? Did someone they really care about disappoint them? The myriad of reasons and rationales that people have cited are innumerable but ultimately I have […]
#44: DON’T EVER WONDER I have finally learned to let people KNOW when things aren’t 100, even when they expect me to be a super hero about it. I am a man of faith and I believe God in ways that make me shout in public. But I am also a hu-man who freaks when […]
#45: SAY SOMETHING! At the end of the day, speak up and get it off your chest. If you’ve got something to say, say it. And, be clear that at times your silence is blaring. When you intend to be quiet or say nothing, let that speak for itself. People don’t give silence enough credit. […]
#46 #WTF–WORTH THE FIGHT: I was listening to Tamela Mann sing TAKE ME TO THE KING the other day and it oddly took me to two crazy different places…but not really. First, to The Book of Esther, where she decrees, after realizing that an unrequested visit to the King could cost her life, “if I […]
#47 LET FREEDOM RING! You cannot be brilliant quetly. Even if you never speak about the amazing things within you, if you live in them, it speaks loudly for you. So stop trying to play small for your small minded family or play dumb for your lazy and lackadaisical friends. Be big. Be bold. Be […]
#46 GIVE IT UP, TURN IT LOOSE: Foolishness is such a powerful thing. It’s so hard for people to realize that, NO MATTER WHAT SOMEONE ELSE DID TO YOU, if you carry around the anger, judgment and disdain that comes along with not forgiving them, YOU CARRY THAT, NOT THEM. Forgiveness is not about saying […]
99 AND A HALF WON’T DO: I have come to realize that you’ve got to go at a thing with force and intention if you want to see it come to fruition. If you are going to try, try ferociously; if you are going to fail, fail miserably because you invested all that you know […]
