Everyone knows that if you want to be a good Christian there are 3 things you have to do: read the Bible, worship, and pray. While there is a lot of sarcasm in that last sentence, those things are important to having a relationship with God. The worship part is the easiest for me. I listen to worship music a lot (I am as I write this) and love worshiping at church. Reading the Bible would be number 2. I am still trying to get better about reading it every day but I do it on a pretty regular basis. Prayer would definitely be at the bottom for me. It is by far the toughest of the 3. I have a short attention span and that does not help when it comes to prayer. [Read more…] about The Power Of Prayer
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Periscope: From Fear To Faith
Last September I wrote about how I was going to tackle my fear of Periscope. I knew I needed to be using Periscope more and I figured if I wrote a blog post about how I was going to it would force my hand. Seemed like a pretty foolproof plan. Except it wasn’t. I maybe did one or two scopes after that post and then went back away from it. I continued to let the fear be in my life. I continued to walk in my insecurities. Every week I would meet with my Mastermind group and they would tell me I was making a mistake and I would usually say something that started with, “Yeah, but…” [Read more…] about Periscope: From Fear To Faith
Cheerleaders Are Great But You Need A Coach
My sophomore year of high school I was on the junior varsity football team and our games were on Thursday nights. My freshman year we got Fridays off because of our game the night before. But my sophomore year our coach decided he wanted us to run sprints on Fridays. He tried to encourage us about it saying it would only last 30 minutes (when football practices were usually at least 3 hours) and we would be able to wear gym clothes and not have to put on all the pads. Even with this news we were not very happy about having to come in on our “day off” and run sprints. But since we didn’t really have a choice we did. [Read more…] about Cheerleaders Are Great But You Need A Coach
Why I Stopped Trying and Started Training
I’m in week 13 of the T25 workout plan. I am in the “Gamma” cycle which basically means you are going to get your butt kicked every single day. I thought the other rounds were like that until I experienced the first week of Gamma. I’ve worked out with Eric and today we were joking about how nice some of the Alpha workouts would be now. As I’ve said before, I got rid of New Year’s resolutions this year. If you do the math, you can clearly see I didn’t wait until January 1 to start getting back in shape. I decided to put myself through the test and start it during the holiday season. I know; such a great idea. [Read more…] about Why I Stopped Trying and Started Training
The Tough Decisions
As many of you are aware, this past fall I started a new job. I spent the past 5 years working for the YMCA and accepted a job as a teacher. I didn’t really talk about it much then, mainly because everything happened so fast that it took me a while to settle down and get my bearings. The decision was not an easy one for me to make, and it was one I wrestled with for a while. I was a part of great things at the Y. Sure the job had ups and downs like every job, but the ups were really high. [Read more…] about The Tough Decisions
I’m Done With New Year’s Resolutions
2016 is here so it’s that time for everyone to start making all their resolutions. I’ve never really been one to do that but last year I decided to mix things up and come up with some. I was bound and determined to do some things and I failed miserably. I wasn’t even close. I made it until about April with most of them but then it was game over. I guess I can blame it on the fact that Zeke was born in late March. Yeah, let’s go with that. Either way, after bombing 2015’s resolutions I will be going back to my normal for 2016. No resolutions. [Read more…] about I’m Done With New Year’s Resolutions