On Fire: Finding Your Gift And Using It

On Fire: Finding Your Gift And Using It

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Dream or Die

posted by grose

Have you stopped dreaming? You no longer: –Draw amazing possibilities in your imagination? –Invent solutions? –Craft new ways to communicate your idea? –Scheme work-arounds? –Imagine what your key relationships could be if you went back at it? –Wish for the [...]

How to get off the sidelines and into the A-C-T-I-O-N

posted by grose

Sidelined. Thoughts swirl: I’m getting nowhere I’ve got too many strikes against me You have to have money to make money There are so many people who do this and better than me. Why try? I’m not included, not part [...]

What if Tabby hadn’t pulled CARRIE out of the trash? (Stephen King)

posted by grose

I couldn’t see wasting two weeks…creating a novella I didn’t like and wouldn’t be able to sell. So I threw it away.            The next night, when I came home from school, Tabby had the pages. She’d spied them while emptying [...]

Your Gift: the daily battle

posted by grose

I have a Gift. So do you. My Gift could be described in a number of ways, but at its most basic level, it has to do with uncovering the uniqueness in people and helping them see it for themselves. [...]

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A Shoe Cobbler and a Prisoner Show How to Live Today
Henry Linder is a 93-year-old shoe cobbler in a tiny town in the Carolinas. He’s an internet sensation right now, even though he doesn’t own a computer. Erik Olsen’s documentary on Henry just won first place

posted 5:06:24pm May. 17, 2013 | read full post »

Oprah and Brene Brown: "Let the Spirit Flow"
In a funk, I picked up O Magazine. Inside Oprah interviewed Dr. Brené Brown, Houston sociologist famous for her research on shame and vulnerability. I had viewed her TED talks. Even read Dr. Brown’s lat

posted 2:08:54pm May. 15, 2013 | read full post »

What We Are Made For ~ and Not
As he steered his Lexus 430 SC onto the freeway in early morning traffic, John kicked himself. Why do I feel so…flat? He had finally achieved the stability for which he worked so hard--a good job with a profitable company, a new sports car, a steady girlfriend, bills paid…he even had the quic

posted 5:26:30pm May. 10, 2013 | read full post »

Battling Ego. Finding Beauty.
Every person has been created by God with a Gift to give for the bettering of mankind. This message—along with writing and teaching—is my Gift. This morning, upon waking, I pull my laptop onto the bed and open it

posted 4:50:07pm May. 08, 2013 | read full post »

The Shortest Path to Greatness
Be you. You don’t have another choice. Copying someone else gets the same results as lighting a firecracker that is a “dud:” a very short-lived blaze of glory followed by a fizzling fall to the ground. Ne

posted 2:16:23pm May. 07, 2013 | read full post »


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