I love my daily hour or two with the Chairman of the Board. It would have to be the highlight of my day. It is the oxygen, the blood stream. It is the place of dreams. It is the source of hope. It is the realm of peace. It is the launch pad. It is the shelter. It is the rock. It is the comfort. It is the hug. It is the kiss. It is the joy. It is the tenderness of tears. It is the thunder. It is the expression of love.

I don’t know how people survive without this refuge.

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As I hear the stories of others, and consider my own story and my own journey, I have realized that the periods where I found myself stuck, stagnant or wallowing in mediocrity have been a result of my willingness to stay under the circumstance rather than rising above it and taking command.

But in order to live a full life I have discovered that I need to refrain from bending my knee as a slave to the circumstances. I choose now to rise up as a Five Star General and take control. I listen to my genius. I re-identify my uniqueness. I take stock of my shelf full of talents and develop them. I survey within, while at the same time observing my surrounds. I dig trenches, re-arm myself for battle, create a battle plan and then charge.

These have been my breakout moments – drawing upon the power invested in me by my Creator. Aided by His courage I have declared, ‘I might have lost the battle, but I’m going to win the war’. I am going to re-group, re-equip and regain my self respect. I am going to go again! No matter if it is the eleventh hour, or the sun is setting on all those around me, I will blaze. I will fire. I will tap into that genius. I will dig deep within until I find that jewel – that peculiar diamond that was deposited in me the very day I was born.

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“I recently overheard someone say, ‘that failure is never so frightening as regret’. I could suffer failing time and time again. I could bear the thought of attempting a thousand times and not quite making it. I could also endure coming short a million times a million. But one thing that I could never abide. And that is to look back at a life where I failed to even step from the shore, or was so stricken with fear that I could never move from my own secure space to at least try. That would be a living hell, too unbearable to even contemplate.” - Peter Sinclair

At my age, you start to notice one thing about your peers, and that is that a lot of them are living lives filled with ‘old regret’, as I call it.

This was particularly highlighted to me recently when I came across a Website whose whole purpose is to link old school buddies.

As I perused many of the summaries of my fellow classmates, that they had written personally, it became very evident that the vast majority, who had had huge dreams as young people, had somehow found themselves with lives that were less than they imagined and certainly not beyond their wildest dreams.

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There have been times in the past when potential clients have put my sales team on the spot by demanding, ‘Convince me that I need….’ whatever product they require. They then lean back in their chair as if they are waiting for some performance to be performed. Now at times this can prove to be rather threatening, especially for a novice. But someone who has posture will be unphased by such a statement, and in this article I want to present to you a strategy that will help you to rise above any condescending approach that is thrust upon you.

Respond in your mind by stating, ‘Excuse me. Convince me that you are worthy to become my client.’ Now to some, that may smack of arrogance – but the fact is that if you don’t ooze belief, out of every particle of your being, you will find yourself being used as a doormat.

When it comes to business, to friendship and to any other relationship, I am selective. Why? Because my life depends upon it.

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Faith without works is dead.

But add the two together, working together simultaneously as one and as a whole creating a lively and vibrant mix. Well now that’s a completely different story. That produces results.

That is what is so exciting about the faith walk that is accompanied by a constant state of action - applied action - ever moving forward action that creates an environment of expectancy and wondrous hope.

For you have stepped out of the restrictive natural and up into the unrestricted supernatural.

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