Category Archives: Personal growth

Facing the Critics In the pursuit of our daring dreams, we will always find critics along the way. They are people who for all the right reasons and all of the best intentions are concerned about you and your dreams. Too often, they speak from the depths of their own fears and shortcomings that becameContinue reading “DAY TEN | Dreams and Goals #4”

Fearing our dreams Fear is a powerful distraction. It can keep us at a standstill instead of in a rhythm of forward movement towards our dream. What about you? What are the fears that get in the way of your daring dream? Fears are worth facing, because the fact is that the daring dream willContinue reading “DAY NINE | Dreams and Goals #3”

Healthy discontent If you and I are to give expression to our full potential, we need to have a real dream, a daring dream, a big dream … one that will challenge and drive us onward. The daydream focuses on the destination and the daring dream focuses on the journey. The daydream cultivates unhealthy expectations,Continue reading “DAY EIGHT | Dreams and Goals #2”

What kind of dream? “Always remember there are only two kinds of people in this world—the realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they’re going. The dreamers have already been there.” – Robert Orben Though it is good to dream, it will remain only a dream unless he recognizes and persists through the thingsContinue reading “DAY SEVEN | Dreams and Goals #1”

There are differences in life between those who achieve greatness and those who simply do not achieve anything that they feel is worthwhile with their lives. Oftentimes we can get caught in a web of our own excuses. Is it wealth? There are many who come from poor and meager beginnings and still become successful.Continue reading “DAY SIX | What Does It Take?”

For the most part, our growth comes step-by-step, ounce-by-ounce. But sometimes we move to a new level of understanding all at once. It’s one of the “aha” moment where everything we have been working so hard to understand suddenly comes into focus. It’s all about a process of maturity and growth. As we commit toContinue reading “DAY FIVE | Seeing Through New Eyes”

We cannot take control of our lives and live the kind of lives we are created to live if we do not realize that our decisions and reactions cannot be based on our emotions. We must take charge of those emotions and understand that they are neither the healthiest nor the wisest determiners of ourContinue reading “DAY FOUR | React or Respond?”

“Fear is the dark room where negatives are developed”. If we allow negative experiences into the dark room of fear, then they develop into pictures that we accept into our visual narrative of reality. Negative experiences will happen. That’s life. However, if we purposefully focus our thinking on the good, positive, creative, and inspiring experiencesContinue reading “DAY THREE | The Dark Room”

These are statements that are made about you. The reality is that we can make affirmations for ourselves … and that’s about it. When you begin to change, you create an environment that other people will respond to. Statement written in the present, positive tense. Something you want to become some time in the future,Continue reading “DAY TWO | Positive Affirmation”

Most people in the world never take the time to decide what kind of person they want to be If you don’t have a target to move towards in the area of personal growth, it becomes that much harder to find the motivation to move at all. If you aren’t sure what you are doingContinue reading “Daily Disciplines: DAY ONE | Process of Change”