Category Perseverance

Encouragement for Times of Doubt

Can you recall a time when you were uncertain, when you lacked confidence or when something in your life seemed unlikely to happen?  Those are times of doubt. Doubt is yucky.  It feels dark and heavy and causes us to be downcast in our souls.  It can creep into any area of our lives. Doubt […]

Slowly Sowing Seeds

It is really hard to move slowly. It is a fast paced world we live in, a pace that can seem to be out of our own control.  Sometimes I feel as if I am in the passenger seat, with a driver who is pushing the accelerator closer and closer to the floor.  Which, drives […]

Start Where You Are At

Sometimes I wish I was at a different place in my life.  There are days I desire to physically reside somewhere else in this world.  I long for skinnier and more prosperous times.  I yearn to not be in my present circumstances.  I just aspire to not be where I am at. No amount of […]

Be Prepared to Wait

Do you enjoy waiting?  Or does the word WAIT simply make you cringe with disgust? Let’s look at our to-do lists for today…do any of us have a special line item dedicated to waiting?  No?  But, I think all of us would acknowledge that there is going to be some waiting in our day. We […]

Keep it Simple, Do it Often

Simple Consistency. I confess that I am a chronic over thinker and over complicator of all things.  To top it off, I am consistent at only one thing, being inconsistent.  I am attempting to trade in delusions of grandeur for some classic simplicity.  From this was born my life theme for 2017, simple consistency. Simplicity […]