Change

Reciting the Serenity Prayer at the weekly Celebrate Recovery Large Group meeting I attend each week helped me get a grip on change and what I do and don’t have control over. The Serenity Prayer begins with asking God grant me the serenity to accept the things I...

How to Make Your Attitude Your Greatest Asset

Notes and quotes from The Decision Maker, Chapter 4 by John Maxwell I think it would be easier to apply this chapter if it was “How to make MY attitude MY greatest asset.”  Here is how I am making my attitude my greatest asset. OWN IT by accepting...

7 Questions to Create Vision

Rick Warren wrote in The Purpose Driven Life, “Living on purpose is the only way to really live.”  He encourages each person to develop a purpose statement in order to create and maintain vision. What do you WANT/NOT want to do? What people, places, and...

What Your Attitude CAN Do for You

This adventure down the Green and Colorado Rivers originated with what Matthew Kelly calls a dream.  Check out his easy to read book The Dream Manager and do what it says, it will change your life. Chapter 3, The Difference Maker by John Maxwell  A positive attitude...

What Your Attitude Cannot Do for You

As I’m working through The Difference Maker by John Maxwell, I am revisiting a canoe adventure from July 2009 with my son Frank, Brother-in-Law Vern, and his son Michael.  The trip was 60 miles down the Green and Colorado Rivers.  I guess you could say the...