40 Day Challenge - Day 25 - 5 views
Encouragement The higher your expectations, the more likely your other person will fail you and cause you frustration. But if you are realistic enough to understand that your other person is huma...
40 Day Challenge - Day 26 - 3 views
Sacrifices When life is difficult for us, we notice. Sometimes the only way we notice that life is hard for our other person is when they complain about it. We chalk it up to a bad attitude or g...
40 Day Challenge - Day 27 - 4 views
Motivation It doesn't take long to discover that your other person will not always motivate you to be a responsive person. Many times they may actually de-motivate you. Although moods and emotio...
40 Day Challenge - Day 28 - 2 views
Unity Unity always strengthens relationships, teams, and families, while division always destroys them. What if you wisely navigated through conversations and misunderstandings in such a way to g...
40 Day Challenge - Day 29 - 3 views
Completing It's almost a cliche to say that we are all made differently. Different temperaments, different bodies, different personalities, different life experiences, etc. Often, we see these d...
40 Day Challenge - Day 30 - 2 views
Applause When you see your other person growing in character, exhibiting behavior that is exemplary, persevering through difficulties, embracing service to others, exhibiting humility - it's time ...
40 Day Challenge - Day 31 - 2 views
Accountability Everyone needs wise counsel throughout life. Wise people constantly seek it and gladly receive it. Fools never ask for it and then ignore it when it's given to them. It is crucial...
40 Day Challenge - Day 32 - 6 views
You're welcome!
40 Day Challenge - Day 33 - 3 views
Dreams What is something your other person would really, really love? Common sense tells us that we may not be able to fulfill every one of their dreams due to time or budget constraints. But ho...
40 Day Challenge - Day 34 - 3 views
Endurance When you have done everything in your power to be consistent, faithful and responsive to your other person, they may still forsake all your efforts, all your kindnesses. And if your eff...
40 Day Challenge - Day 35 - 4 views
A Covenant We're getting close to the end of our challenge - if you made it this far, congratulations. It has taken a great deal of perseverance to keep going. Today I want to highlight a paradi...
40 Day Challenge - Day 36 - 2 views
Concentration Concentrate on the bad to the exclusion of the good and I see a problem, not a person. See problems rather than people and I don't help at all. For the help that is needed is hel...
Moral Progress - 2 views
My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (George E...
The Monster - 3 views
Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world, and we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is th...
Barriers - 3 views
Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our cultures have inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts...
Look Inside - 5 views
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications. (Pema Chodron)
Fear - 9 views
I always wonder what the origin of this very strong emotion is...
Why do we choose sides? - 6 views
If we didn't choose sides, there'd be nothing dividing us. (L.T. Downing)
Love & Excellence - 6 views
Wanting love is good and wanting to excel is good. The trouble comes from trying to tie them together. Pursue love and pursue excellence - pursue them with abandon. But you will spoil the joy nativ...
How Do We Change? - 7 views
When someone we have been blaming becomes real to us, we change. We become a person who sees another person as real. We change from being accusing, guarded, and self-absorbed to being open, self-fo...
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