I Am Nick Spindler

Telling my story, encouraging you to live yours

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Stop Trying To Be Happy

I’m sure some of you clicked on the link thinking this has to be clickbait.  No one in their right mind would tell people to stop trying to be happy.  It isn’t clickbait.  That really is the main point of this post.  We all need to stop trying to be happy.  In our culture today we are told that happiness should be the driving force of basically everything we do.  If you are looking for who to marry, you are often told to find someone you are happy with.  When picking a job it should be one that you are happy in.  If you are looking for what college to go to, you need to make sure that you can be happy there.  Same thing for finding a church, deciding where to live, or any other decisions we are trying to make.  Our happiness scale drives our decisions and this is a terrible way to make decisions. [Read more…] about Stop Trying To Be Happy

Love Your Neighbor

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. – Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

There are a lot of things going on today that are polarizing people.  It covers all my social media feeds and honestly I’m getting a little tired of it.  You can’t check Facebook without seeing something about the upcoming election.  You can’t check twitter without seeing something about HB2.  And I’m not here to take a stance on anything or talk about what is right and what is wrong.  When I see all this it just makes me wonder, what if we just loved people? [Read more…] about Love Your Neighbor

The Answer to All Your Problems

Conflict is a natural part of life.  There isn’t really any way to avoid it.  Just take one look at the news and it is about all you will see.  There are bombings here, shootings there, conflicts everywhere.  You can try if you want, but there is not really a way to avoid conflict.  As much as we don’t want to admit it, we are the cause of conflict more often than we probably wish.  In my job, I deal with it on a daily basis.  When kids are running around all day playing games you will inevitably get conflict.  In all the conflict I’ve dealt with in my life, I’ve found that there is one thing that solves it every time. [Read more…] about The Answer to All Your Problems

Just A Normal Day At Camp

Today when I got to work I had a lot of things on my mind.  We are really short staffed this week and it has been hectic.  At some point during the day I was supposed to get a call from a mom who had some concerns.  It was starting to rain and weather reports were saying it would stay that way all day, so I had to start coming up with a plan for what to do if that happened.  It wasn’t shaping up to be an ideal morning. [Read more…] about Just A Normal Day At Camp