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You’re Letting Things Slip
Watch your thoughts for they become words, watch your words for they become actions, watch your actions, for they become habits, watch your habits for they become your character, watch your character for it becomes your destiny. —Ralph Waldo Emerson One minute, you have everything under control. Your prayer life is up to scratch, you hardly forget to pack your lunch and you’re on top of things at work. Then suddenly, things start to slip. The work deadlines start piling up, you forget to sort out your lunch a couple times a week and your prayer life just isn’t the same anymore. Everything is a mess, you’re running after your…
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Protect Your Peace
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace – Unknown “Protecting your peace” is such a popular thing right now. It is truly important to attain and maintain some level of peace. There is only so much that you do when you’re distracted, stressed and overwhelmed. People can destroy your peace by forcing you to attend to their “urgent” (but not actually urgent) matters. You can destroy your own peace by making life more complicated than it is. I love this definition for “protecting your peace” – it means maintaining a healthy environment for growth and also guarding your state of mind. Protecting your peace means cultivating a safe space internally and externally where you can be…
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You’re Not An Entrepreneur
It’s the shortcuts that will honestly cost you more time – Unknown One of the greatest highs is learning how to make your own money outside of formal employment. My goodness, it’s an exhilarating feeling. You just want to keep doing it over and over and over again! BUT… this doesn’t make you an entrepreneur. I’m going to burst a few bubbles, you ready? If you have any form of money making activity that earns you income when and only when you put in your personal effort then you are not an entrepreneur you’re a contract employee. Everytime someone buys something, orders something or pays for a service in your business…