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Rule 10: Be open to having your beliefs challenged.

By LBaucom on Monday, March 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Be open to having your beliefs challenged.  In other words, hold loosely to your outlook.  That does not mean that you have no beliefs, only that they will change and evolve over time.  That is the nature of everyone’s outlook or “worldview.”  Perhaps authors are more aware of this than others, since we have our [...]

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Rule 9: Mistakes Don’t Matter

By LBaucom on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 | No Comments

OK, let me say just a bit more:  “Mistakes don’t matter.  How you deal with them does.”  You see, we often get so caught up in fearing that we will make a mistake that we don’t stretch. We stop ourselves before we even begin, or we freeze up in the midst of trying, all because [...]

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Rule 7: Ask “What’s The Worst That Can Happen?”

By LBaucom on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Today, the question that can help you challenge your fears when thinking about doing something.  You see, fear pretends to befriend and protect us.  So it whispers into our ear all kinds of thoughts about not doing something because “something could go wrong.”  But in actuality, there isn’t much fact behind the images of utter [...]

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Rule 6: You Get To Choose Your Response To Fear — Unhealthy Responses

By LBaucom on Friday, January 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

We have established that fear is a given.  We cannot get rid of it.  We can only decide whether or not fear will run our lives.  And we can decide how we will respond. But what if you find yourself constantly in the grips of fear? There are two basic approachs to life that are [...]

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Rule 5: We All Have Some Basic Fears

By LBaucom on Monday, January 19th, 2009 | No Comments

We share fear with every living creature. The difference is that we are able to add emotion and thought to the feelings. Sure, some animals are capable of emotions –anger in particular. But as far as we know, no other animal reflects on their fears. Because we are thinking creatures, we take a fear and [...]

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Rule 4: Fear Is A Fact Of Life

By LBaucom on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Fear is a fact of life.  We may as well get used to it. I say that because we all spend an inordinate amount of energy avoiding fear.  For what?  We still feel it.  In fact, very often when we avoid fear, we really only grow that fear. Let me be clear:  I am not [...]

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Rule 2: Recognize a Thought is a Thought

By LBaucom on Friday, January 9th, 2009 | No Comments

The second rule ties directly into the first rule.  In fact, it is probably step 1 in watching our mind.  What is going on in our mind?  Thoughts.  What trips us up?  Thoughts. The problem is not the thoughts.  The problem is that we don’t recognize they are just thoughts.  Thoughts are merely constructs of [...]

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The Rules: A Starting Point

By LBaucom on Sunday, January 4th, 2009 | No Comments

OK, so let’s set some parameters for these 99 rules of thriving.  You see, these rules are not pulled out of thin air.  They come from my frame for what I understand are the elements of a thriving life. As I have studied this, four areas of concern emerge in the pursuit of a thriving [...]

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Misunderstanding Forgiveness

By LBaucom on Friday, December 5th, 2008 | No Comments

A recent AP Story: Families can’t forgive Nebraska mall shooter OMAHA, Neb. – Christmas decorations are in place and holiday music fills the atrium, yet a gloom punctuates the shopping season at the Westroads Mall. Employees, their families and friends planned to gather Friday at the steps of the Von Maur department store in remembrance [...]

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