When you are forgotten, neglected, or purposely set aside, and you sting from the insult, but are happy at being counted worthy to suffer for Christ...that is dying to self.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, and your opinions ridiculed, yet you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but you take it all in patient, loving silence...that is dying to self.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, irregularity, annoyance; and you endure waste, folly, extravagance, and spiritual insensibility, as Jesus did...that is dying to self.
When you are content with any circumstance, food, offering, clothing, climate, society, solicitude, and interruption by the will of God...that is dying to self.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, record your own good works, seek after commendation from others, and are content with being unknown...that is dying to self.
When you can see your brother prosper and you can honestly rejoice with him in spirit without feeling envy or question God, even though you have greater needs or more desperate circumstances...that is dying to self.
When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly without rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart...that is dying to self.
"If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." Matthew 16:24
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
The Disease of Me
THE DISEASE OF ME = THE DEFEAT OF US
SIX DANGER SIGNALS OF THE DISEASE OF ME:
1.CHRONIC FEELINGS OF UNDER APPRECIATION – FOCUS ON ONESELF.
2.PARANOIA OVER BEING CHEATED OUT OF ONE’S RIGHTFUL SHARE.
3.LEADERSHIP VACUUM RESULTING FROM FORMATION OF CLIQUES AND RIVALRIES.
4.FEELINGS OF FRUSTRATION EVEN WHEN THE TEAM PERFORMS SUCCESSFULLY.
5.PERSONAL EFFORT MUSTERED SOLELY TO OUTSHINE ONE’S TEAMMATE.
6.RESENTMENT OF THE COMPETENCE OF ANOTHER – REFUSE TO ADMIT HIS CONTRIBUTION.
"The most difficult thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much easier to be selfish."
-Coach Pat Riley
SIX DANGER SIGNALS OF THE DISEASE OF ME:
1.CHRONIC FEELINGS OF UNDER APPRECIATION – FOCUS ON ONESELF.
2.PARANOIA OVER BEING CHEATED OUT OF ONE’S RIGHTFUL SHARE.
3.LEADERSHIP VACUUM RESULTING FROM FORMATION OF CLIQUES AND RIVALRIES.
4.FEELINGS OF FRUSTRATION EVEN WHEN THE TEAM PERFORMS SUCCESSFULLY.
5.PERSONAL EFFORT MUSTERED SOLELY TO OUTSHINE ONE’S TEAMMATE.
6.RESENTMENT OF THE COMPETENCE OF ANOTHER – REFUSE TO ADMIT HIS CONTRIBUTION.
"The most difficult thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much easier to be selfish."
-Coach Pat Riley
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Class
Class is respect for others. It is a deep and genuine respect for every human being regardless of his status in life.
Class is having manners. It is always saying "thank you" and "please." It is complimenting people for any and every task done well.
Class is treating every other person as you would want them to treat you in a similar situation.
Class never brags or boasts about one's own accomplishments, and it never tears down or diminishes the achievements of another person.
Class does not depend on money, status, success, or ancestry. The wealthy aristocrat may not even know the meaning of the word, yet the poorest man in town may radiate class in everything he does.
If you have class, everyone will know it, and you will have self-respect. If you are without class--good luck, because no matter what you accomplish, it will never have meaning.
Class is having manners. It is always saying "thank you" and "please." It is complimenting people for any and every task done well.
Class is treating every other person as you would want them to treat you in a similar situation.
Class never brags or boasts about one's own accomplishments, and it never tears down or diminishes the achievements of another person.
Class does not depend on money, status, success, or ancestry. The wealthy aristocrat may not even know the meaning of the word, yet the poorest man in town may radiate class in everything he does.
If you have class, everyone will know it, and you will have self-respect. If you are without class--good luck, because no matter what you accomplish, it will never have meaning.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Importance of Goals
What does it take to succeed on a big scale? A tremendous god-given talent? Inherited wealth? A decade of postgraduate education? Connections with the top people in your field?
Fortunately for most of us, what it takes is something very simple and accessible: clear, written goals.
A study of graduates from an Ivy League college found that after 20 years, the 3% of them who had written goals achieved more financially than the other 97% combined! An average person with average talent, ambition, and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Fortunately for most of us, what it takes is something very simple and accessible: clear, written goals.
A study of graduates from an Ivy League college found that after 20 years, the 3% of them who had written goals achieved more financially than the other 97% combined! An average person with average talent, ambition, and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
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