Life

The Elephant We Call Life

There’s an old Hindu story about some blind wise men that each want to experience what an elephant is. The man who feels the elephant’s tail thinks the elephant is like a rope. The man who feels the elephant’s trunk thinks it’s like a snake. The man who feels the elephant’s leg thinks it’s like [...]

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Addicted to the Pulse

So many of us are addicted to the pulse. We’re either actively engaged in monitoring all the social media hubs or we’re wondering if something’s happened there. We don’t really want to spend a lot of time on the cell phone, but we carry it around with us religiously just in case something happens. We [...]

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What I’m Here To Do

The air on the bus was so thick with tension and fear you could hardly see through it. We had just spent our last night out as civilians. The Academy had pulled us all together and brought us to a hotel just outside of Newark where we had a social cocktail and meet & greet. [...]

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Take Care of Others by Taking Care of Yourself First

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vlad Dolezal from Fun Life Development. It was the beginning of spring. The snow had just melted, and Agatha the Spider had gone outside after hiding in an old barn all winter, to find a nice convenient spot to place her first spring spider web. After walking [...]

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How to Flourish: 22 (More) Quotes on Living, Being, and Doing

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Ghandi Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. [...]

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How Will You Use The Limited Time You Have?

On the Sunday morning before Thanksgiving, we got word that Angela’s grandmother had died overnight. Her death was completely unexpected – Angela had just talked to her a few days prior and there weren’t any signs that her passing would be soon. One day we went to bed preparing for her family to come here [...]

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Getting Out of Urgency Mode and Having To Think Again

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke. For the whole summer, I was operating in urgency mode. Cleaning out our flat and moving house, a trip to India, finishing a 20,000 word portfolio for my MA, our church’s kids’ Holiday Club, getting married … one thing followed the next without much space [...]

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How to Attract The Most Awesome People Into Your Life

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vlad Dolezal from Fun Life Development. Let me tell you the story of a rabbit called Rabbit. It was a sunny spring day, and Rabbit was outside, playing with other young rabbits. He was still growing up and discovering the world at this point. All of a [...]

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Keep Learning and Helping – Let Go Of Regret

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may have to click through to watch the short video.] One of the beauties of maturing is that you learn new ways to contribute to others. In my own case, I often regret that I couldn’t help people in the past the way I can today. [...]

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