Bad things do happen to good people.
Yet, all the while God is with us, walking with us side by side as we limp our way toward heaven. God does not exempt us from suffering, but He is always with us in our suffering just as He was with us in the fiery furnace and the lion’s den.
“I have to kinds of problems: the Urgent and the Important.
The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”
- 34th US Pres. Dwight Eisenhower
Complacency kills persistence.
Complacency is the moment we get comfortable and decide it’s good enough.
It’s the moment we settle and stop growing and challenging ourselves.
Persistence thrives on constant challenges and seeking new experiences.
-1%
Love who you’re becoming.
We only truly value that which is earned—and specifically, that which we earned through the process of becoming.
-The 1% Rule
Consider the way tons of rock and soil crush carbon deposits into diamonds.
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From the carbon's perspective, the weight of the world literally destroys you-but it also creates something new, something rare and beautiful.
“Our value is not based on what we do but on who made us.”
(Paintings that may look goofy are worth millions of dollars if they were painted by Pablo Picasso.
So if God made me, I have tremendous value even if I do not have the approval of other people. )