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On Fire: Finding Your Gift And Using It

I couldn’t see wasting two weeks…creating a novella I didn’t like and wouldn’t be able to sell. So I threw it away.            The next night, when I came home from school, Tabby had the pages. She’d spied them while emptying my wastebasket, had shaken the cigarette ashes off the crumpled balls of paper, smoothed them…

I have a Gift. So do you. My Gift could be described in a number of ways, but at its most basic level, it has to do with uncovering the uniqueness in people and helping them see it for themselves. I express this Gift unknowingly and knowingly, as in writing posts for this blog. But…

In my previous post, Your purpose–write it down, see it happen, I described a life purpose statement this way: … a purpose statement simply captures an overriding theme already present in your life. It puts down in words the true work you are here to do: the cause you will pursue, the wound in individuals…

Do you feel called to something? Have a cause you are passionate about? Know your life purpose?  If so, have you written it down? Dr. Henriette Anne Klauser says writing down your dream or goal is the first step to realizing it. “Write It Down, Make it Happen: Knowing what you want—and getting it!” is…

I define your Gift as: An insight wrapped in talent and shared with others.(More about your Gift here.) So, it’s not just what you’re good at. It’s what you’re good at applied to what you care about. The combination is dynamite—for you, for others. Here are nine self-examination questions to help you uncover your Gift.…

Monday morning. The first day of the week brings fresh hopes and dreams. I imagine better, clearer ways to be true, to give the Gift entrusted to me. But there’s always something. I live on a mini-ranch. Letting the horses out to graze reveals leg injuries. The gelding—who wasn’t supposed to mount the mare in…

There is a word that – keeps you down, – deepens your fears, – squelches your dreams and – hands you off to addictions and distractions—television, video games, shopping, wine, porn—ensuring you waste your life. The word is this: H O W As in: Do that? I don’t see how. I can’t see how to…

It is morning. A new day, a fresh start. But the thoughts swirling in my mind are grey: I’m stuck. My new ideas are all used up. I’m a failure. How does he/she do it? How does he keep coming up with great stuff? Life sucks.  I’ve fallen into a black hole of: I must…

The news isn’t good: One in four Americans are obese (some stats say one in three). One in ten US adults are suffering from depression. 9% are diabetic and our overall standard of health is on the decline. We are in a health crisis. Yet we have access to more information on physical fitness and…

My mother’s paperback fiction book is for sale on Amazon.com. Consider this: she was 85-years-old when she published it, this was her first book, and she doesn’t use the Internet! We live in a very special world. Susan Boyle, an unknown Scottish singer in her 50’s can enter a talent show, be viewed 20 million…
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