One of the benefits of surrounding yourself with other successful people is that they are regular daily reminders to you that success is possible.
Category Archives: The Growth Mindset
From Poverty to Wealth: Quotes from Rich Dad Poor Dad Chapter 2
An asset is something that puts money in my pocket whether I work or not. A liability is something that takes money out of my pocket. If you want to be rich, simply spend your life buying or building assets.
From Poverty to Wealth: Quotes from Rich Dad Poor Dad
To spend your life living in fear, never exploring your dreams, is cruel. To work hard for money, thinking that it will buy you things that will make you happy is also cruel. To wake up in the middle of the night terrified about paying bills is a horrible way to live. To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself.”
What Are Your Dams?
While Dams can be good when used constructively, dams cause a disruption in the flow of life-giving water. Similar to dams, we all have things in our lives which stop up our flow of productivity.
Men Pursue Hard Things
After all, we are co-heirs with Christ. We are sons of the Most High God. Our God owns and rules the universe, and we are His. We are His kings of whom He is King. And yet, when my feet hit the ground and I am confronted with real life challenges and tasks, this biblical perspective about my identity in Christ often fails to reach my brain. There is at least one reason for this
The Benefits of Struggle
As I have been reading Booker T. Washington’s autobiography entitled Up From Slavery, I have been struck by the amount of struggle he had to endure in order to acquire an education.
What Are Your Dams?
While Dams can be good when used constructively, dams cause a disruption in the flow of life-giving water. Similar to dams, we all have things in our lives which stop up our flow of productivity.
The Fear of Failure
In my previous post, “Obeying Fear is True Failure“, I wrote about how many of us don’t use our God-given gifts because we are afraid. There are many things to fear. One of the most common fears we face is being afraid of failure. If you were asked to answer the question, “What is somethingContinue reading “The Fear of Failure”
Obeying Fear is True Failure
“What have you failed at recently?” ~Dave Ramsey When I first saw the above question posed on social media, it caught me off guard. As if failing was a good thing! But why would failure be a good thing? The answer is simple: If we are not sometimes failing then we are not taking risks.Continue reading “Obeying Fear is True Failure”
The Law of “Throwing Them Open”: How to Lead a Person into Maturity
My 9 year old son just told me he is excited because he just completed his next piano lesson book. My wife, a gifted pianist, teaches all of our children piano. In our home, our children have no choice but to learn piano. There is no discussion about it. It is an automatic assumption thatContinue reading “The Law of “Throwing Them Open”: How to Lead a Person into Maturity”
Inspired Resolve 