The Ultimate Investment

There is another way you can work towards Being your best self.  It stems from service.  Nothing can boost your own worth faster than sincerely serving others. Christ said, “whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.” (Matt 20:26-27, Mark [...]

You can rise no higher than the image you have of yourself, and the discipline you exercise in Being.  You control how high you rise by controlling who you become.  The more you approach Being who you have the potential to become, the more successful you are.  At the risk of over generalizing, there are [...]

Kevin was sent to prison for drug abuse and grand larceny.  After a year behind bars, something clicked, giving him a strong desire to get out of prison and never return.  Disciplining himself, he learned to live in every day in a way which would help him be his best self, and “went for it.”  [...]

The process of Being works in a simple but miraculous way.  You transform yourself into the person you ideally could become simply by doing the things that type of person does.  Then, when you’ve been doing those things long enough, you realize you have disciplined yourself into Being the type of person you would most [...]

Keeping a personal journal does more than just record history.  It can help you stay on the right track.  In your journal you will want to record the things you did right, what you learned and how good that felt.  You will also want to record what you did wrong, what you learned, how bad [...]

When you were younger, you probably had someone you really looked up to.  In some cases, the desire to be like this person was so strong within that it caused you to want to dress like that person, talk like that person, act like that person.  A mental image of being like this person began [...]

It’s a Saturday morning after a long, hard week.  I’m sitting at my computer debating on whether I should mow the lawn or not.  It’s a hot day, I have lots of other things to do and I’m tired. Of course I know I should mow the lawn.  I just don’t want to.  If I [...]

In the pasture at the front of our home there’s a tall, old evergreen tree standing which long ago had been hit by lightning literally splitting it in half.  Rather than die, it held on and grew to a towering height – but in two halves.  It’s an amazing sight and an even more amazing [...]

In the mountains where I live there are mostly dirt roads.  When it’s raining and traffic flows ruts are carved into the roads.  When they dry out you can drive down those roads and not have to touch your steering wheel because your wheels will be moving in the ruts. Being in a rut can [...]

Martha was a divorced mother of three living in poverty.  On and off welfare rolls, she’d recently moved hoping for a new start.  She had interview after interview hoping to find a job, any job, but she was never hired.  Why?  She had all the skills, her health was good, she had a desire to [...]