by Rich Patterson | Mar 18, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Being Aware of Your Thoughts Teaching our kids to be aware of their thoughts helps determine the direction and quality of their lives. When we encourage kids, and ourselves, to filter our thoughts more towards the pure, simple, and innocent things, we in turn shape...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 15, 2019 | Character, Family & Relationships, Personal Improvement
Letting Go of the Past Last week I wrote about “Trusting Your Struggle,” which is a part of living and learning from our past. Today I am suggesting that we take time to clean out the past and let go of it. We all have disappointments and struggles in...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 13, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Consider Your Soul I have read that we make over 2,500 choices every day. All of those choices lead to the life that we end up living. All of them affect the outcome of tomorrow. The choices we make today create our tomorrow, but what is beyond that? What about...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 11, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Rise to Give Today I want to suggest that when we rise to give to others, we are at our best and our most happy. When we use our talents and give our time to help others rise, we feel like a million bucks. Giving is a robust understanding of enjoying life. ...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 8, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Trust Your Struggle I am using DJ Johnson’s photo title, Trust Your Struggle, for my post today. We would rather not have any struggle, but then how would we know the good times? By what nature would we be able to identify them. If we trust that our struggle...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 4, 2019 | Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Expect Things to Change Living a joyful life is totally up to you, not your circumstances. You can live satisfied, happy, and with a restoration mentality or find all the injustices you wish. Just because I say, this doesn’t mean that it will happen, as we...
by Rich Patterson | Mar 1, 2019 | Encouragement, Family & Relationships, Personal Improvement
Restore the Peace It was a terrible argument, complete with door slamming and words exchanged in anger. Immediately I realized I had made a colossal mistake. I sat in disbelief about what had just happened. How did that anger show up? No one had planned it, nor...
by Rich Patterson | Feb 27, 2019 | Character, Communication, Encouragement
Bless Yourself and Others Think about that difficult person in your life. Maybe it is a spouse, a friend, a colleague, a boss at work, and just the thought of them raises your blood pressure. I discovered a long time ago that when I feel this emotion inside, I need...
by Rich Patterson | Feb 25, 2019 | Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Overcome Resistance Sometimes life feels like a football game. For example, you are working hard, and bam, you get hit with a comment from a colleague. When we think we’re starting to move forward, the car needs repair, or we have an illness that takes us down...
by Rich Patterson | Feb 22, 2019 | Character, Encouragement, Personal Improvement
Opposition Will Always Be There No matter what you do, no matter how good you are or how grateful and aware of others you are, the opposition will always be there. Someone will be there to show their jealousy at your new success, or to tell you what it doesn’t...
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