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Your Definitive Guide to Effective SMART Goal Setting
Setting goals is the first step toward achieving success, whether it’s in your career, personal life, or relationships. But how do you ensure your goals are effective and attainable? Enter the SMART goals framework, a proven method to help you create clear, actionable, and realistic objectives. Let’s break it down so you can start setting SMART…
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Understanding the Loneliness of Church Leaders
I just got wind of another pastor committing suicide. I was slow to write on this because I don’t want to be in the habit of being a pundit. Instead, it is good to simply lament. Of course there were many specific circumstances that led to this particular pastor’s decision to shoot himself…but I am…
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Gaining Hope By Gazing Upon Hurt?
In his majestic poem, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”, William Wordsworth writes: Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And let the young Lambs bound As to the tabor’s sound! We in thought will join your throng, Ye that pipe and ye that play, Ye that through your…
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Why Judgment Hurts So Bad, Why You Keep Giving In, And HOW to Get Relief!
I had a conversation with a friend the other day and they confessed (though didn’t apologize, mind you) to having judged decisions I had made. These pre-judgments were out of ignorance and not once did the person talk to me to find out the circumstances surrounding various decisions I had made. Instead, they succumbed to…
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Book Reflection: No Fail Habits
A short book that packs a good punch. This book was NOT written by Michael Hyatt but by his team at his company. It bears mentioning, that MUCH of the book stems from Hyatt’s teaching and the examples given to illustrate are of him. To make this Book Reflection easier, I will refer to the…