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Living in our strengths and passions to make the world a better place is ultimately satisfying. Under this category, we talk about how to align our lives with our strengths, passions, values and life experience. In short, we talk about how to live our calling.

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Our Calling Flows from Our Strengths

Last time I explained that our calling is unique to use, and it flows from who we are. Today I am going explore this a little more. Our calling flows from our strengths. God doesn’t gives natural talents and abilities and then expect us to not use them. Instead, God has wired us up a […]

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Flow

This week I am going over how to discover our calling. Our calling is unique to each of us. It flows from who we are. Too often we look for our calling to be provided by some external source. We think that our calling is somewhere out there. If only we could find it. However, […]

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Do You Hate Your Job?

Do you hate your job? Life is too short to spend so much time doing something you hate doing. So if you hate your job, find something else to do instead. Following are a few steps to get you started. 1. Believe it’s possible to find work you like or even love. 2. Get clear […]

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Self-Publishing: 20+ Moving Parts

Who knew that prepping a book for self-publishing was so complicated? Writing the content is just the beginning. There are a lot of advantages to self-publishing. We have the final say on everything from the content to the artwork and we didn’t need to convince a publishing company that the book is worthwhile. Most people […]

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Be Memorable

Some people have led memorable lives. On this Memorial Day holiday, let’s pause to remember the men and women who made a difference by serving in the military. Then, let’s consider an important question posed by the great philosopher, Lynyrd Skynyrd: “If I leave here tomorrow, Would you still remember me?” Are you on track […]

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Zero

To often we are defined by what we’re against rather than what we’re for. We have mothers against drunk driving (MADD). We are anti-hunger, anti-smoking, anti-bullying, and so forth. But these things only get us out of negative territory. They just get us to zero. Because of all this energy to avoid what we don’t […]

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A Matter of Life and Death

Back in 2005, around the time when I had my heart attack, I learned that there are different kinds of death, and there are different kinds of living. This time I want to talk about a matter of life and death. I’ve learned that we often think of things in terms of “either this or […]

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Time to Recommit

​Hello. I’m Leena, Rena’s Braille Instructor. I want to talk about recommitting to my calling. For me, commitment is a 100% integrity and intention. It means that I will do what I say I’m going to do no matter what it takes. Re is a prefix meaning again. To recommit then is to reset my […]

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Starting Over

Starting over can be really hard. It’s possible, though, that we might need to start over in some area of our lives when we are seeking to live our calling. We may have to approach it like a beginner and admit we have a lot to learn Jon Acuff wrote a blog a couple weeks […]

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