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The Best Time of Day is Now

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Do you put off until tomorrow what you should have done yesterday? When you kill time, you kill those callings God has placed within you. The Living Bible's version of Ecclesiastes 11:4 says, "If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done." The first step to overcoming procrastination is to eliminate all the reasons and excuses for not taking immediate action. Everyone is on the move. People are moving forward, backward, and sometimes nowhere at all as though they are on a treadmill. The mistake most people make is thinking that the main goal of life is to stay busy. Such thinking is a trap. What is important is not whether you are busy, but whether you are progressing. the question is one of activity versus accomplishment. A gentleman named John Henry Fabre conducted an experiment with processionary caterpillars. They are so named because they have a habit of blindly following each other no matter how they are lined up or where th...

WHO IS REALLY RESPONSIBLE? HAVE YOU ASKED THIS QUESTION?

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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by today, to do our work with more force than ever before" (Stewart John). If you would like to know who is responsible for most of your troubles, take a look in the mirror. If you could kick the fellow responsible for most of your problems, you wouldnt be able to sit down for three weeks. It's time for us to stay out of our own way. Most of the stumbling blocks people complain about are under their own hats. Louis XIV commented, "There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself." The Bible's wisdom counsels. "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls" (Proverbs 25:28) "Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you" (Frank Tyger). You may succeed if nobody else believes in you, but you will never succeed if you don't b...