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The law teaches love. We were created for love. But since we so easily forget what love is, God laid down the law as a guide to teach us what love looks like. Yet so often that is not how we use the law. In today’s world, we often hear statements like: “just love one […]

Living the best life is far more realistic than living the dream life. The best life takes into consideration your real life situations and redeems them and builds on those impossibilities. My dream life would be Justin Bieber’s life. A million fans, and a ton of money. Lots of fame. Okay, not sure I would […]

Sometimes we just need to put our heads down and power through. It is something that the intentional life design community often doesn’t talk about. But we would be foolish to believe that living intentionally would be a breeze all the the time. In fact, sometimes the best life is the harder path. The sense […]

Whenever we start living intentionally, we will also start experiencing obstacles and setbacks. And my favourite thing to say becomes: “So What?” Let me elaborate on that. I don’t mean “so what” in the careless sense. I mean “so what” in the sense that, it doesn’t matter, I will still continue to live intentionally. When […]

Redefining success allows us to see that true success is not about your circumstances. It is not about what you have or do not have. It is not about what you have or have not experienced either. True success is about who you are. If you are like me, it is very difficult to detach […]

Knowing how to deal with offenses is an important life skill to have. Everybody gets offended sometimes. Such is life. All of us meet people on occasion that do or say something that offends us. And we all have someone that finds the soft underbelly we all secretly posses, and then they throw grenades at […]

Have you ever been distracted by your smartphone when you are trying to connect with a friend or colleague? We all have. I think it is time to start reclaiming my relationships from my smartphone. The average user checks his smartphone for messages about every six and a half minutes. The constant blinking and beeping […]

We often mistake arrogant opinions for conviction. As similar as they may seem, there is a big difference between conviction or arrogance though. So how can you tell which emotion is which? Today a friend asked me if I knew of any good sources of information for a subject she was researching. I couldn’t help […]

I sometimes forget I was created to be a human being, not a human doing. Then I need to be reminded of what the difference is, so I can get back to being a human being. This morning in church, my pastor reminded me of that again. He talked about simplifying your life, borrowing from […]

Crashing my chatterbox is a daily task for me. I’ll be doing something and then I will hear the little chatterbox voice in my head giving me all the reasons why it won’t work and I should quit trying. And sometimes, quitting would be easier than doing the work required to crash the chatterbox. But […]