I woke up the other morning from a very, vivid dream. As I think about it now, I can feel the bitter sting and pain as it took me back to a familiar childhood memory – one of rejection. In my dream, one of the women at my church rejected me by inviting the ‘popular’…
Do you have any idea how powerful you are? Have you ever thought about it? In Luke 10:19 Jesus says, “I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.” And that’s just one of many scriptures that talks about the…
In the health and fitness world, we’ve been led to believe that if you exercise and diet, your excess weight will just magically melt away but first hand experience will tell you that this is not true. Although this may be the case for a small percentage of people, studies tell us that 90% of…
In our Haven program, we have just started a new series on ‘Overcoming Procrastination’. In our group, we all agreed that it’s a topic that we all do in varying degrees but most of us are stumped on how to eliminate this nasty habit permanently. If you have taken our monthly 21-Day Challenge then you…
The other day one of my son’s soccer coaches sent out a 3-page email telling the boys that they did not want success bad enough. At first I was offended that a coach would be so hard on 14 year old boys but after thinking about it, he was 100% right. Here’s a line from…
“How much should I weigh?” This is one of the most popular responses I get from clients when I ask them ‘what is your ideal weight?’ Whether you want to know ‘just how bad it is’ or you want to know what a healthy weight range should be for you, it is important that you…
This week in our Haven program, we decided to extend our discussion of limiting beliefs for another week. We’re learning that this is probably one of the main factors that is preventing people from attaining their healthy weight. Yes, we’re overweight because we have not exercised as we wanted to. Yes, it’s because we ate…
Over the next week, I will be enjoying the beautiful cities of Madrid, Malaga and Seville. My 13 year old son is playing soccer in Spain and Portugal and we get the privilege of watching him live out one of his dreams. What an incredible opportunity for a young man. I always admire my son…