Posts Tagged ‘Faith’

 

Whatever You Focus on Becomes Real to You

Post written by Justin Mazza. One thing that all of us have in common is the ability to focus on external objects or events. Today I was watching my beloved Baltimore Ravens play the Houston Texans for the AFC playoff hunt. Maybe you don’t care a lick about American Football and I am alright with [...]

How To Risk More & Fear Less

All my life I have been taking risks – and I’m still breathing. Whenever facing yet another challenge in my life – and they do come from time to time – I often look at my wife and say, ‘Well I’m not dead yet.’ The fact is that until you’re dead there is so much [...]

Who, In This Day & Age, Can We Really Trust?

‘All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson I recently read an interesting treatise written by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer called , where he discusses the transition from ambition to meaning. As part of the discussion he draws his readers attention to his discovery [...]

How To Know The Mind Of God

‘I want to know God’s thoughts…the rest are details.’ Albert Einstein There’s a funny thing about opinions. Everyone has one. Then there’s everybody’s viewpoint on things of a religious nature. It’s often hard to discover a point of agreement. One man can read a piece of spiritual or wisdom literature and get one interpretation while [...]

How To Live Recklessly Without Being Shipwrecked

Throughout the years many of us have been encouraged to ‘play it safe’. Even our parents and friends have often used the expression ‘take care’ as we leave their company. What if we turned both of those statements on their heads and started to encourage each other to ‘live dangerously’ and ‘take risks’. Now that’s [...]

How To Unleash A Powerful Life By Leaving

To traverse to another land across the oceans we must first leave the shore. This is where the adventure begins, where danger lurks, and where possibility is unveiled. However, if we do not leave we will never arrive. It’s as simple as that. To obtain what is better in life we must often let go [...]

Mahatma Gandhi’s Simplicity & Faith

I recently watched the film about the life of Mahatma Gandhi portrayed by Ben Kingsley in the 1982 film Gandhi, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Inspired by that film’s depiction of this great man I wanted to share two aspects of his life that impressed me – his simplicity and his faith. [...]

How To Be Kicked Around By Life But Never Kept Down

I hear so many people whingeing about the economy – that they are unable to get a job, that there is no opportunity or that they don’t seem to be able to earn enough money. The overriding word evident in their vocabulary is ‘CAN’T’! I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to do something that [...]

How To Be Outasight In Business & In Life

‘For we walk by faith, not by sight.’ 2 Corinthians 5:7 While still in my twenties, my future wife and I decided upon a business name – for at that time I was a professional musician. We came up with the business name – ‘Outasight Music’. Outasight was chosen because in the Australian idiom it [...]