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10 Rules for life
If you don’t hold yourself accountable before you hold others accountable, you’re insincere about what you claim to uphold. If you focus on everyone else’s shortcomings that you think may justify your behaviour, you will be defined by everyone else’s shortcomings. Is that really the standard by which you want to live? It always starts…
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Be the village
While it takes a village to raise a child, it also takes a village to corrupt a child. Parenting is a monumental challenge in itself, but becomes infinitely more challenging when being done by a single parent. Add to the single parenting challenge by having an obstructive co-parent, and the challenge continues to grow ever…
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Who do you want to be?
Don’t get so lost in trying to find yourself that you lose the opportunity to reinvent yourself. If you’re struggling to discover who you are and what you should be doing with your life, perhaps it’s time to focus on who you want to be instead? You cannot be purposeful about life if you don’t…
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Divinely obnoxious?
Godliness is like humility. It is lost when we actively pursue it. Living by the doctrine to which you subscribe is infinitely more important than preaching it. People learn from how you treat them, not from how you chastise them. Judging the faith of another reveals the cracks in your self-worth more than it offers…
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Gratitude is not an attitude
What would life be like if you maximised every resource and every opportunity to which you have access? What would the quality of your relationships be if you built on everything that works instead of focusing on what’s not working? How would you feel about yourself if you looked at all you’ve overcome instead of…
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You are your own worst victim
The victim mindset wreaks the most destruction and creates the worst of oppressors. The victim mindset is established when we find ourselves nursing wounds of experiences and betrayals that have long since passed. The victim mindset is nurtured when we are emotionally impacted by the behaviour of those who play no meaningful role in our…
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Who smiles first?
Are you perhaps the village idiot in someone else’s life, or maybe they’re filling that role in yours? The answer to the question as to who puts a smile on the face of the village idiot is that no one does. No one puts a smile on the face of the village idiot because no…
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Redirected rage
Our self-worth defines our behaviour in moments when we feel most unappreciated. Whether a toddler, a teen, or an adult, we are provoked towards anger and bad behaviour when we feel taken for granted or irrelevant to those who matter to us. It doesn’t mean that they must treat us badly. It could be as…
