Good Habits for a Great Life!
Is your love all that it should be?
“Love one another and you’ll be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that”, says Michael Leunig, an Australian writer.
Relationships define the quality of our life. How selflessly we love determines the quality of our relationships.
We all need a reminder on occasion of what truly devoted, sacrificial love looks like. I certainly do. I’m guilty of slipping off into …
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Have you established good family rituals?
Fun, meaningful family rituals reinforce a sense of security and belonging. Let’s face it, as human beings, we love to know what to expect. We certainly like our traditions, ceremonies and I’m definitely all about good habits. When you incorporate these within your family, you are laying the groundwork for success.
Children especially benefit from having well established routines and rituals. It creates …
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Do you understand the real differences between introverts and extraverts?
There is a lot of misunderstanding about these two personality types. This leads to unnecessary interpersonal conflict in the home and at work.
Which are you an introvert or an extravert? What are your children? What is your spouse? It is extremely important to know. It can explain a lot about how you get along.
I’ve heard from several …
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Are you focused on the right things in your life?
You have to look at what I think are two distinct snapshots of your life to answer this question.
You have to weigh the big picture versus the little picture to get an accurate account of where you stand.
I’ll get to how I distinguish these two aspects of life, but I can say right now that it is very …
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Are you fully engaged at work?
I want to say right up front that a lack of engagement at work is bad for you. Yes, it is bad for your employer too, but the negative effect it is having on you is my main concern. So, let’s take a look at this and see what we can do about it.
Engaged Versus DisengagedEngaged workers are all out involved. …
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Are you a good steward?
Stewardship is accepting personal responsibility for taking care of something entrusted to us. When you hear someone talking about being a good steward, you probably think they are talking about money.
It is no doubt very important to be a good steward over our personal finances. In fact, I tend to think it would be nice to do so well with my finances that one …
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Want to know the fastest way to drastically improve your life?
Build relationships! It is no secret that most lucky breaks in life occur because of who you know or get to know. However, meeting new people is only half the battle. If you want your new acquaintances to act on your behalf, you must quickly build rapport.
Rapport is a relationship of mutual trust where a natural …
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