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Living the best life is far more realistic than living the dream life. The best life takes into consideration your real life situations and redeems them and builds on those impossibilities. My dream life would be Justin Bieber’s life. A million fans, and a ton of money. Lots of fame. Okay, not sure I would […]

Sometimes we identify progress with speed. And on occasion that is synonymous. But direction matters more. And sometimes direction isn’t as simple as we believe. C.S. Lewis said something to the effect that we think the guys running fastest are making the most progress. But sometimes, the guy walking in the opposite direction is the […]

Whenever we start living intentionally, we will also start experiencing obstacles and setbacks. And my favourite thing to say becomes: “So What?” Let me elaborate on that. I don’t mean “so what” in the careless sense. I mean “so what” in the sense that, it doesn’t matter, I will still continue to live intentionally. When […]

Redefining success allows us to see that true success is not about your circumstances. It is not about what you have or do not have. It is not about what you have or have not experienced either. True success is about who you are. If you are like me, it is very difficult to detach […]

Have you ever been distracted by your smartphone when you are trying to connect with a friend or colleague? We all have. I think it is time to start reclaiming my relationships from my smartphone. The average user checks his smartphone for messages about every six and a half minutes. The constant blinking and beeping […]

Putting God first in your life is the very first principle of living your best life. To me that is not optional. It is required. If you wish to live your best life, you will do it in right relationship with God. Some think that I overdo the best life emphasis. I don’t think I […]

Some days I find myself wishing for a do-over at life. Life didn’t turn out much like I had hoped and even expected it would. I guess our dreams don’t account for the disappointments of life. But disappointments are part of life. If you had asked me at 18 where I would be and what […]

If you wish to live the best life, then you need to learn to do the one next right thing now. Not tomorrow’s thing, not today’s list. Just do the one next right thing. Perhaps a lifestyle of doing the one next right thing is the closest you can come to living in faith. Such […]

Everyone of us desires to live a life of passion. A life where we are engaged in our work and love what we do. Here are five elements of passion, that may get you closer. After posting the last post, Are You Addicted to Passion, I had readers wondering if I had changed my mind […]

Are you addicted to passion? Passion is like sex. A great thing to have, but so destructive when you are expecting something from it that it was never designed to deliver. Many people follow hot sex to love and are left sorely disappointed. Because great sex can’t lead you to love. Believing that great sex […]