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Passion: Articles that deal with the inner drive that we all need to want to MOVE from where we currently are to where we dream to be.

Preparation: These posts reference articles, books, documentaries, speakers, quotes, and other inspirational and formative ideas that I have found that helped me and the people around me.

Practice: Articles in this category have a heavy sports and performance training lean.

Performance: These articles focus on how you go about your work. From networking to communications to finding a better way to do what you do.

Perseverance: Articles in this category speak to the mechanics that we go through both mentally and physically to stay on track and not get STUCK.

 

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Dualism: Trust and Faith

I was watching a movie the other night about the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Sinai to Canaan. If you were to walk it today. It would take you ELEVEN DAYS!

Why did it take them 40-years? The people who followed Moses had a lack of Trust and Faith.

They did not trust their leaders – who led them out of the slavery of the Pharaoh.

And they lacked faith in their God. The One who opened the Red Sea allowing them to escape the army of Egypt. The One who, when they were thirsty, brought water from a rock. The One who, when they were hungry, provided manna from the heavens.

Because of a lack of Trust and Faith it took the Israelites 40-years to go a distance that should have taken them 11-days, to get to their promised land.

This Trust and Faith thing is a constant battle in our lives, just like it was to Moses.

Trust is something that you control.

Faith is an inner belief.

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Success: Faith and Trust

Did you hear the story about the leader who took forty years to get his group to their optimal destination? We might think that this guy was tenacious. This guy had grit and determination. One who doesn’t know the meaning of quit … right?

What happens if I told you that he could have gotten his group to their destination in eleven days, instead of forty years?

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Faith

When was the last time that you told your spouse, child, friend, employee, co-worker, “I have faith in you, I believe that you are going to be successful?”  Here is the sad part, when was the last time you looked at yourself in the mirror and told yourself that you had faith in you and that you believed that you were going to be successful?  

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