Category Archives for "Rethinking Success"

Around this time of Year, millions make their New Year’s Resolutions in a renewed effort to improve their lives. They don’t like what they see when they look back at 2012, and vow 2013 will be different. And so they make this list of things that they will do, or not do, from this day […]

In today’s world, I often hear derogatory remarks about dreamers. It’s as if dreaming has become a bad thing. The truth is, some dreamers have lost the connection between their dreams and reality! That disconnect between dreams and reality can happen to all of us. As children we often have dreams of what we’ll do […]

Meditation is a profoundly important Christian Discipline, and yet when I Google meditation, the results would suggest that the eastern religions own meditation as something uniquely theirs. Even my photo search for this post, revealed very few suitable photos for a Christian context. That sentiment seems to be prevalent even among the Christians I talk too. […]

Focus is a powerful thing. They say that a race car driver that allows his vision to focus on the wall for a second is likely to crash into the wall. You are drawn to what you focus on. That is true in most areas in life. If you allow your mind to focus on […]

Almost every person I talk to seems to have a wish list of things they wish they had. (I am not exempted.) They wish they had a full-time ministry job, an executive management position in some large corporation, a bigger cheque at the end of the week, a nicer more reliable car, time for a luxurious […]

Lately I have spent a lot of time thinking what it is that we were created to be. Sometimes we talk about someone being successful and the thought comes to mind: what is success? The world describes success as having a house bigger than your neighbor’s, a nicer car than your friend drives, a yacht […]