An Encouraging Experience!

WOW! I just received an e-mail from my project mentor. He said that he forwarded the first formal draft of my doctoral dissertation to the technical editor for editing.

This is huge for my wife, son and me. My high school counselor told me to not bother applying for college because I would never make it.

If you have experienced someone tell you that you won't make it and you have a dream that you can, go for it! Take the risk! No matter what happens, you will learn from the experience!

Upward and onward!

Failure: Your Best Friend or Your Worst Enemy

Failure. What do you think of when you read or hear the word? I used to feel it was something that I was to avoid at all costs. Looking good was my goal.

Now I see failure as my best friend. If I never make a mistake, I can't learn or grow.

It's not what happens to me, but how I reflect on it.

I am learning to enjoy how to fail well. After all, I can either enjoy the process or be destroyed by it.

I choose life. I'm tired and worn out with performance as the barometer of my state of being. I'm burned out with religion. I am learning to live out of my state of being.

The who before the what. I love my wife my son and my friends with the who first.

Our Creator made me and He deeply loves me, completely accepts me and fully values me. He feels the same way about you!

Failure. Your best friend or your worst enemy. How do you deal with failure?