A life. A relationship. A family. A project. A community. A business. These things and more are built. How they are built tends to determine whether they will succeed or collapse in abject failure. Success in building tends to come from knowing what success looks like and who can orchestrate andevelop it based on an […]
Read More Dryden Links: Who’s Doing The Building?It might be a western expectation of how life should go, but here are a few basic requirements to live a successful life. As long as you emerge healthily. As long as you grow in a helathy way. As long as you attend and blend in well at school. As long as you get good […]
Read More Journeyman Journal: Redefining SuccessFollow One Course Until Success (Part 5 of the FOCUS series. Part one can be read here. Part two can be read here. Part three can be read here. Part four can be read here.) What does success look like? It is not always as it appears. A King of one army clearly gains victory […]
Read More SuccessIn my childhood I found sport fascinating to watch. My Dad wasn’t that fascinated in sport at all and the only one he really paid attention to was athletics. One of the sports that I was interested in was boxing. As with other sports I got into, I read some history on the subject and […]
Read More When There Are Disputed ChampionsThere’s an episode in the earthly ministry of Jesus where a rich young man approaches him to find out what he needs to do to get eternal life. The episode is covered in three of the four gospels, you can read it by clicking here for the Luke 18:18-30 account. The aftermath of that encounter […]
Read More Defining Success AgainThere is something sweet about success. Allow me to ground that in some context. The most influential collection of writings in my life remains the Bible. The single most influential person in my life is still Jesus Christ. Unsurprisingly I spend a fair bit of time reading the Bible and looking for Jesus in it […]
Read More Well Done: The Sweetness of SuccessJust some questions buzzing round my head. Is it right as a follower of Jesus to consider the concept of ‘success’? If so, what is the disciple’s definition of success? How can it be measured? Is it fair for it to be measured as other non-Christian projects are measured? Is it possible that we may […]
Read More Measuring SuccessIf success is earning loads of money – I am failing at success terrifically. If success is being very popular among a large number of people – I am failing at success terrifically. If success is defeating everyone in my to get to the top of the pile in my profession – I am failing […]
Read More Failing At Success TerrificallyAbigail, is our precious 6 year-old middle daughter. As you can appreciate leaving a place where she was accustomed and had made friends and moving to a strange new place, can be discomforting, traumatic and unnerving. In a previous school she had suffered from some of the effects of the trauma of the new and […]
Read More Celebrating God’s Achievements In Your LifeWhere are you going? People who have succeeded in life are usually driven forward towards accomplishing a goal. It gives them something to work towards and when they have achieved that they move onto another. Success is achieved by being clear and focussed. Where things go awry is through distractions. The road to hell is […]
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