Category: motivational
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Did You Check Your Attitudometer Today?
Did you check your attitudometer today?
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Are You Running Toward God?
Like many kids, I tried out for various sports. When I was in the fifth grade, I played basketball. I didn’t do well. I couldn’t shoot or dribble. The rest of the team wasn’t good either. We lost every game. Needless to say, I never went out for basketball again. In Jr. High, I went…
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God Wants You to Be Successful
Did you know God wants you to be successful? That’s right! God wants to help you be successful. God wants you to achieve your full potential. Jesus told many stories. These stories were designed to help people find God and live successful lives. One of Jesus’ most famous stories is called “the parable of the…
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How to Escape the Darkness
Where’s the darkest place you’ve ever been? The darkest place I’ve ever been was inside a cave. I was touring a cave, and when we were deep underground, the tour guide had everyone turn off their flashlights. Then he turned off the lights, and we were plunged into total darkness. If you’ve ever been in…
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Avoid the Comfort-Zone
In 1971, the fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s introduced an advertising slogan: “You deserve a break today—at McDonald’s.” The advertisement was an instant hit and helped McDonald’s become the giant company it is today. The influence of the catchy slogan, however, went far beyond getting people to buy a McDonald’s hamburger. The slogan became the mantra…
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Recent Elections
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How to prevent fires
A friend of mine told me a story about how her father’s house burned down because of a plumber’s carelessness. According to my friend, during a very cold winter, the pipes in her father’s house froze, so he called a plumber. The plumber came and used a butane torch to thaw out the pipes. The…
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What to do when you’re having a bad day
You’ve heard the song by Bobby McFerrin Don’t Worry, Be Happy? That’s good advice, especially when you’re having a bad day. We’ve all had days when it seems nothing is going right. You open the refrigerator and there’s no milk for breakfast. On your way to work, you get stuck in a traffic jam. Then…
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How to find your next job
The Covid-19 pandemic has put a lot of people out of work. Maybe you’re one of the millions of people who, due to no fault of your own, suddenly find yourself looking for a job, because of the Corona virus. When I was younger, and needed a job, I would take the first job I…
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A fork in the road
A young boy and his little sister skipped down the road on their way to town. Their mother had sent them to buy some sugar so that she could bake cookies. The boy told his sister that he knew a short cut through the woods so they went off the road and took a path…
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Marriage Advice
Recently (July 25, 2020) Kathy and I celebrated our thirty-ninth wedding anniversary. We’ve had our good days and our bad days, but overall, it’s been good. I’m not the smartest man alive, but I do have a few words of wisdom about marriage for anyone who’s willing to listen. Rule number one is: be honest…
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God’s crisis-response team
During the Cold War, I was a security policeman in the U.S. Air Force stationed in Germany. One of my jobs was to work in a tower where I monitored an alarm system on the perimeter of a nuclear munitions storage facility. To prepare for an attack, we had regular training exercises. During a training…
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Exploding Batteries
When I was a kid, I saw something I’ll never forget. Three men were looking under the hood of a car when suddenly the battery exploded, and battery acid splattered over one man’s face. Fortunately, a water faucet was nearby, and they quickly washed his face with water. I don’t know if his injuries were…
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Don’t Let Your Dogs Loose
Some of you know I enjoy cycling. Cycling is a fun and exciting sport, but it does include the risk of crashing. One day I was cycling with a group of friends at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey. We were clipping along at about seventeen miles an hour when two dogs suddenly jumped…
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Focus on the Positive
Be positive and happy.