Success 101 by John C. Maxwell (Nashville, TN: Nelson Books, 2008)
One of my favorite areas of personal growth and improvement is the area of leadership. Several years ago, I was introduced to the leadership works of John Maxwell when I attended an InJoy conference, and have been hooked on his books ever since. Last fall, I had to opportunity to pick up several of his titles that I didn’t already possess, and have been reading through them this year.
Three or four of them are on the topic of success, and this one, Success 101, is succinct and easy to read. It also has a plethora of usable insights and quotes that I know will come to mind as I need them, and as I grow in this area.
I highly recommend you read some of John Maxwell’s works, and you can pick this one up at Amazon for just a few dollars.
Attitude is the determining factor of whether our failures make or break us.
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or removes your relish for spiritual things – that is sin to you.
When life kicks you, let it kick you forward!
E. Stanley Jones, Missionary
Some folk, if they knew themselves better, would not brag as loudly as they now do.
Please Pray For My Family
UPDATE: Later on February 16, just before noon, my grandmother took her final breath of this earthbound atmosphere and took her first breath of heavenly air in the presence of Jesus. I’m sure the reunion with her husband, son and grandson, among others, was sweet. And best of all, she finally heard those words, “Well done! Enter into my rest!”
My family and I could use your prayers at this time. My grandmother has been in declining health for the past few years, but recently her decline seem to have been speeding up. She is in her mid 90s, so this doesn’t come as any surprise, but it is still a difficult time for our family. Please be in prayer for us.
Because of this, things may be sporadic around here for the time being. I hope to be as consistent as I can be, but I expect to be in and out a lot more for the foreseeable near future. Thanks for understanding.
And, so you know who you are praying for, here is a picture of my grandmother holding my youngest daughter. Mercy is a newborn here, and she’s now three. My grandmother loved being able to hold her just days after she was born.
It is impossible to succeed without suffering. If you are successful and have not suffered, someone has suffered for you, and if you are suffering without succeeding, perhaps someone may succeed after you. But there is not success without suffering.
