New Year's Resolution Action Plan
Creating a new year's resolution can be a great idea, especially if you are resolving to get healthier (weight loss and exercise are the top resolutions made). But if you don't have an action plan it may be doomed before it ever gets started. Unfortunately, the majority of individuals who make a new year's resolution end up breaking it.... >Read More
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Breakthrough This New Year
Are the people in your house about to embark on another set of New Year's resolutions? Encourage your loved ones towards the goal. If you're feeling stuck, here are a few simple, deliberate steps that can help propel you from vision into action.
1. Commit. You might take a step or two in the right direction, but until you are... >Read More
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Finding Some Peace on Earth
"Silent night, Holy night. All is calm, all is bright..."
The carols try to tell us that this is a calm and silent time of year. But for most of us, the weeks leading up to Christmas can be anything but calm. You know the drill: office parties, shopping, baking, wrapping, relatives, Christmas plays and everyone's favorite - family pictures. It's...... >Read More
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Home for Christmas
Are you lonely this Christmas? Come talk to a mentor.
In 1962 I was preaching in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was single and it was Christmas time. I was heading home to Michigan to enjoy the holidays with my family.
It was an extremely cold day and it was snowing. The wind was howling out of the north, blowing thick clouds of... >Read More
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Getting Over the Holiday Blues
Need to talk? Power to Change offers a free mentoring program where you can talk privately with a trained mentor.
This is supposed to be a season of joy and happiness, but many people don't feel it. Many people suffer from bouts of depression or the blues at different times during the year. During the holiday season people encounter...... >Read More
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10 Tips for a Less Stressful Holiday
Does your Christmas spirit get lost in the frenzy this time of year? Is your household so hectic during December that it could drive even Bob Cratchit to tear out his hair? Well, you might as well face the fact that not even the Grinch can stop Christmas from coming; so we must learn strategies for surviving the holidays with... >Read More
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In Search of the Christmas Spirit
The holidays can be challenging. If you need someone to talk to, come talk to a mentor.
One Christmas, I came across an article in a local newspaper by an articulate columnist named Bill Johnson. His column was titled, "A Lesson in Catching the Christmas Spirit." Johnson began his search for the Christmas spirit at the Christmas tree lots,...... >Read More
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How to Write a Love Letter
What could be more romantic than receiving a love letter? A good... >more
Awaken Love
Okay, that's a really corny title, but I've been thinking for a... >more