Four Great Tips to Give Quality Time to Those Around You  

I was an imaginative kid who played well on my own.  Even though I could play by myself, what I really craved was one on one time with my hero, my dad.

It didn’t matter what we did–play cards, throw around the baseball, run to the hardware store–my ‘Dad Time’ was coveted and special. He was giving his time, his focus, his words and his affection to me.

As I got older and started dating my future wife, my focus on quality time was with her.  Most of our time dating was across long distances. So,

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Forgiveness

SUMMARY

FORGIVENESS

  • Forgiveness is the ability to allow someone who’s been in error to have your blessing.
  • Both your ‘I’m sorry’ and your forgiveness need to be genuine.
    • If not, you are giving unforgiveness a hold on your mind, your heart, your emotions, and living in negative and misery.
  • Often, it’s the little things that get us ticked off and off balance.
    • Talk through it.  Be ready to forgive and to move on. 

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What is the Biggest Financial Dream that has Come True for You?

SUMMARY

BIGGEST FINANCIAL DREAM TO COME TRUE

  • My biggest dream to come true wasn’t about a dollar value but that the dream was so huge I couldn’t see myself ever getting it. It was so large that it was going to need supernatural power!
  • I always wanted a Porsche,

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HOW THE E5 PILLARS ORIGINATED

SUMMARY

HOW THE E5 PILLARS ORIGINATED

  • The five pillars – spiritual, emotional, mental, physical and financial – came from five different sources.
  • There were five different pillars, each with a balance point.  
  • When combined, each pillar could throw another off balance if not integrated properly. 

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Blessability

SUMMARY

BLESSABILITY

  • Characteristics that form around blessability:
    • Joy – Harmony – Peace – Confidence – Smiles – Excitement
    • Look for people who exhibit these characteristics.
    • Strive for them yourself.
  • Blessability is how you act, think, and serve others in order to put your life and your prosperity into the vein of being blessable.
    • Blesssability is a derivative of living in all five pillars in balance and equilibrium.
  • Why live in blessability?

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How aware are you?

Awareness

SUMMARY

AWARENESS 

  • Awareness is a key attribute and a key characteristic in life.
  • Self-awareness is most important.
    • Most people don’t know who they are, how they’re hardwired,  why they’re hardwired that way, or what their character flaws are.
  • Awareness means ‘to have your antenna up’ –
    • To be able to perceive at a high level; be aware of what’s going on around you.
  • The mind is programmed to generate awareness.

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Four Ways to Sow Success

Here is a little known fact about me. You may not believe it. Trust me, I’m telling you the truth.

I love the Little House on the Prairie book series.

I do! Really!

My love affair with Little House started when I was a kid. I would lie on my couch and watch the TV show. Often.

I carried this love for the Little House TV series into college, no joke. My two college roommates were just as hooked. We’d rush back from class to catch the latest airing of the old series.

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Is Attitude Everything?

SUMMARY

ATTITUDE

  • Attitude ISN’T everything,
    • But it is one of the main things that you can take captive and control.
  • We want to have awareness of our attitudes:
    • Be seed-sowers.
    • Be positive with our attitude.
    • Make sure that we control it.
  • An attitude can be a predisposition.
    • Because of a past occurrence, it is possible to assess a situation and ‘cop’ a bad attitude.

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How to be a Good Gift Giver

Have you ever been stressed over buying a loved one a gift? Wondering: Will it fit? Will she like it? Is it the right color? Does she already have one? Is this too little? Too much?

For me, this used to happen every Christmas. I didn’t mean to get overwhelmed with the gift buying process. It’s not that my wife was super picky, needy or finicky. She didn’t have it all. For all intents and purposes, she should have been easy to buy for.

I think I know how I got this way, though.

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The Power of Belief

There was one time. . .

I got a detention. Yeah, me. If you haven’t picked up on it already, I was quite a mischievous kid. I liked making people laugh and sometimes that got me into trouble.

Well, this one time, I was pressured into tossing a huge wad of toilet paper, soaked in chocolate milk, on the bathroom ceiling of the boy’s bathroom. Just as an aid walked in to check on us, it dropped at her feet.

It’s funny when I think of it now! Not then though because I got a detention!

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