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How are you looking at things?
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 4/8/24 – reprises from the blog of the late Pastor Jack Freed – Originally sent February 12, 2008
–“Weather is a great bluffer. It’s the same with life. Things can look dark, then a break shows in the sky, and all is changed.” (Unknown) Even though we talk a lot about the weather, there are things more important than the forecast. Darkness can come into our lives…
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Are you having a bad day?
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 3/18/24 – reprises of posts to the blog of the late Pastor Jack Freed – Originally sent May 17, 2016.
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.” (H. Jackson Brown Jr) Someone I know was treated rudely by a bank teller. She asked the person, “Are you having a bad day, or are you always like this?” It was done…
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Start over, but take a different path…
This graphic from my real estate company offers good advice, but perhaps not enough.
Certainly starting over does provide an opportunity to build something better, but only if you have learned from your past failures and take a different path this time.
There is an old saying that insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Sadly, too many people…
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Be happy with what you have…
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 3/11/24 – reprises of posts to the Jack’s Winning Words blog or the late Pastor Jack Freed. Originally sent July 10, 2015.
“Just remember there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.” (Unknown) When I first read this quote, I could not help but stop and put aside my personal complaints. I have so much, and there are so many who…
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What world Booker T think about today’s world?
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 3/4/24 – reprints of blog posts from the late Pastor Jack Freed.
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by a majority.” (Booker T. Washington)
Booker T. was born during the Civil War and grew up to be a respected educator, businessman and advisor to presidents. As I reread his quote, I…
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Live in the moment…
I get graphics everyday from my real estate company – Real Estate One. Most are just supporting pitches to sell your home now or let me find you a new home. This one has a more general meaning…
It is all too easy to spend time reflecting on the past or dreaming about the future. Time spent on the past is usually time spent in regret. Regret for things that you’ve done or maybe things that you’ve…
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Care about somebody else today…
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 2/26/24 – A reprise of posts to the blog of the late Pastor Jack Freed. Originally sent July 26, 2013
“In all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some are better at hiding it than others.” (Will Smith) Harry Golden’s essay, “The Show Must Go On,” tells of a man who was late for work one day and was reprimanded by his boss. Later in the day, the man quietly said, “My…
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Procrastination…
I was going to write about this yesterday, but I decided to wait.
That’s how it starts. Procrastination is an insidious thing. It steals one’s time and stifles creativity. Even if you have no real idea how to get to a desired end point, jumping in and getting started is doing something, as opposed to doing nothing.
Doing something, even something wrong, gets one’s creative juices moving. Even…
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Simple is best…
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 2/20/24 – reposts of the blog of the late Pastor Jack Freed…
“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” (Longfellow) Christopher News Notes tells of Susan Vogt and how she challenged herself to get rid of one item each day during Lent. Not only did she want to live more simply, but she also wanted to donate things to…
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Give yourself a break…
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 2/12/24 – Originally sent April 21, 2015.
“You know you’re really stressed when you start getting on your own nerves.” (Sent by NCD) Each year my insurance provider asks for a health assessment, including a part which asks me to rate my stress level. I’ve read that some stress is good for all of us. As with much of life–All things in moderation! But, when nerves…
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What’s the “next play” for you?
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 2/05/24 – reprises of posts to the blog of the late Pastor Jack Freed.
“Next play!” (Mike Krzyzewski) A recent article in the Detroit Free Press told how “Coach K”, head basketball coach at Duke, has a ritual of saying to his team after every play (good or bad), “Next play!” No matter what’s happened, focus on the task at hand. We all have “downers.” We need to…
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Hang in there…
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 1/29/24 – reprises of posts from the late Pastor Jack Freed…
“If the mountain were smooth, you couldn’t climb it.” (Quoted by Wintley Phipps) Many of us were fascinated in 2015 when TV showed two people climbing the sheer face of El Capitan, using only hands, feet, and a rope. They were able to succeed because small fissures in the rock allowed them to get finger…
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Dealing with your selfie…
Every now and then, in an unguarded moment of honesty we get a glimpse of ourselves – a mental selfie, if you will. Not everyone likes what they see. Not everyone can deal with what they see.
self
/self/
noun
a person’s essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action.
Introspection may lead to feelings of guilt or…
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Define yourself…
“Other people’s definitions of you, sometimes they’re more about making themselves feel better. You gotta define yourself.” – Christopher Moltisanti from the TV show The Sopranos
How do you define yourself? Do you defer to what you think others might think about you or do you have your own definition of who you are?
Defining yourself sounds a lot like thinking of yourself in the third person,…
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What are you aiming to do better?
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 1/8/24 – reprised posts from the blog of the late Pastor Jack Freed.
“All I aim to do this year is better.” (PictureQuotes.com) Are you into making resolutions? How’s it going? Recently a related quote was handed to me: “A year from now you’ll wish you had started today.” When we’re really serious about making changes in our life, it has to happen one day at a…
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Escape your prison in 2024…
The Best of Jack’s Winning Words 1/2/24 – reposts from the late Pastor Jack Freed’s blog
“As I walked out the door to my freedom, I knew if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and bitterness behind that I would still be in prison.” (Nelson Mandela) As we walk into the New Year, it would be well to follow Mandela’s example and leave behind that which has kept us from being the best that we can…
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Whose expectations are you trying to meet?
As I get older, some things that used to be important to me have lost that sense of importance, especially as it related to the use of my time. And, when I take the time to really think about it, many of those things were things that I was doing not so much because I really wanted to as it was that I thought someone else expected me to. I was letting what I perceived to be their expectations of…
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