Choice

Your future is your responsibility

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.  – Alice Walker. There is a story about two brothers. The boys had lost their mother when they were quite young and were brought up…
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Resitting tests

There is a preacher whose sermons have taught me a lot about life.  I remember listening to one of Joyce Myer’s talks where she said that we are blessed to have a God who gives us lessons and tests and,…
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What if I do nothing?

Letting go of what you know in order to move forward into uncertainty is much easier said than done. Fear of the unknown is a common blocker that many of us use as a reason to stay stuck and ‘making…
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What are you waiting for?

This week, I sadly, and all too prematurely, lost a friend. She was vibrant, active, fit and, by all appearances, healthy. Out of the blue, she was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour. She had just enough time from being…
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Will it make you bitter or better?

Stuff happens.  That’s just life.  But why is it that some people manage to get through their challenges, leaving only a distant memory behind, while other people carry that baggage with them, metaphorically living out of that suitcase for years,…
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Do it afraid

Human beings are born with only two innate fears:  the fear of falling and the fear of loud noise.  All the other fears are conditioned into us. Some fears we can pinpoint to an actual event, like having a fear…
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