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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity... - Carl Jung........Psalm16:7 “I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.”

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf...-Rabindranath Tagore........Gen3:19.-Job21:23,25.- “Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.- One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.- Preserve me, O God: for in Thee do I put my trust.”

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The question, “Who ought to be boss?” is like asking “Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?” Obviously, the man who can sing tenor...-Henry Ford.........2Thess2:16,17 “Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.”

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Those of us with more experience should certainly not think less of our younger colleagues. They often supply fresh ideas and passion. We're never too young to lead and never too old to follow. Lead with your eyes on the Lord, regardless of your age...-Seybert, Leaders........1Tim4:12“Don't let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all.”

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Love is the outpouring of one personality in fellowship with another personality. Personality merges, and you only reach your real identity when you are merged with another person. When love, or the Spirit of God strikes a man, he is transformed, he no longer insists upon his separate individuality...-Chambers, My Utmost............John17:22 “That they may be one as we are one.”

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“Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.- I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.- Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.- Fight the good fight of faith.-In nothing terrified by your adversaries.”...-2Tim2:1.- Acts20:32.- Phi1:11.- 1Tim6:12.- Phi1:28...

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Contracts are a good idea. They spell out terms and expectations so there are no surprises. When writing a contract, I try to address everything that might occur during the assignment...-Seybert, Leaders.........Hebrews13:10 “This is the covenant that I will make with Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.”

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Are you a problem solver? Are you always ready to jump in with a solution? The value of your contribution will be judged by the quality of the results, not the speed of your decision. If you want to make better decisions, slow down before deciding...-Psalm62:12 “Thou renderest to every man according to his work.”

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Contracts are a good idea. They spell out terms and expectations so there are no surprises. When writing a contract, I try to address everything that might occur during the assignment...-Seybert, Leaders.........Hebrews13:10 “This is the covenant that I will make with Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.”

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Human beings are extremely susceptible to The Ho-Hum Factor. We lose interest, become complacent, and often take important things for granted because they no longer sparkle with newness. If response to your last flyer was disappointing, perhaps you need to find a new way to tell the story. Make Things New...-Seybert, Leaders........Lamentations3:22,23 “The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh every morning.”

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Only the farmer who plants in the spring, reaps a harvest in the autumn...-B.C.Forbes........Matthew21:28 “Son, go work today in My vineyard.”

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot be said to possess wealth, as that wealth may be said to possess him...-Francis Bacon........Eph3:14-19 “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.”

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in others the conviction and will to carry on...-Walter Lippmann........Philippians1:6 “He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.”

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Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire...-Bobby Unser........ Make your desires strong - not secret...-Kaufman........1John5:14 “This is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us.”

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Order your eggs sunny side up. Your life too!...-Ron Kaufman...........John6:63.-1Cor12:3 “It is the Spirit that quickeneth.- No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.”

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A Ponzi, or pyramid, scheme is a fraudulent investing technique that promises high rates of return to investors. In the scheme, money provided by new investors is used to pay seemingly high returns to early stage investors. The scheme collapses when required redemptions exceed new investments. It was named for Charles Ponzi who set up an illegal pyramid scheme in the 1920's that defrauded investors. In Dec08, 70yrs old exNasdaq Chairman Bernard Madoff was arrested for a US$50B scheme that defrauded the world's biggest banks, the rich and the famous...-PDI, The World........Prov17:12 “Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.”

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“Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end. There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.- You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.”...-Proverbs19:20-21.- James1:19...

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You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the heck she is...-Ellen Degeneres........Proverbs19:8 “He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.”

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It's up to you: Get discouraged or get determined. Get bitter or get better. Focus on liabilities or possibilities...-Ron Kaufman........John15:7 “If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

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Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others...-Christian Larsen........John13:1 “Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.”

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Investing is simple, but not easy...-Warren Buffett........1Cor15:58“Therefore, My beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.”

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours...-Henry David Thoreau........Psalm112:4 “Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness.”

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Never nourish an experience which has not God as its source and faith in God as its result. Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is...-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest........1Cor2:12 “We have. . .received the. . .Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.”

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When you take people on a journey into the future, you give them hope as you lift their perspectives above the quiet desperation to which many are accustomed. If you're not blessed with a visionary perspective, find someone who is and make him or her a member of your inner circle. Help People Glimpse the Future...-Seybert, Leaders........Genesis41:37 “Joseph's suggestions were well received by Pharoah and his officials.”

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There is hope and fresh air in the future. When you help people glimpse the future, you give them hope as you lift their perspectives above the quiet desperation to which many are accustomed...-Seybert, Leaders........Genesis41:37 “Joseph's suggestions were well received by Pharaoh and his officials.”

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Don't forget until it's too late that the business of life is not business but living...-B.C.Forbes........John11:25,26 “I Am the ressurection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”

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Courage is . . . grace under pressure...-Ernest Hemingway.........Isaiah26:4 “Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.”

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I am easily satisfied with the best...-Winston Churchill.........Eph2:13,14 “It pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell: and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself.”

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The world has become too much a part of us, and we are afflicted with the idea that we are not accomplishing anything unless we are always busily running back and forth. Yet our time is never more profitably spent than when we set aside time for quiet meditation, talking with God, and looking up to heaven. When our soul is completely open and accessible to any heavenly thought or influence that God may be pleased to send our way...-L.B.Cowman, Streams In The Desert........Gen24:63 “He went out to the field one evening to meditate.”

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Too many times we are so concerned about the product we try to shortcut the process. There are no shortcuts when integrity is involved. Eventually truth will always be exposed. In quality control, we are not concerned about the product. We are concerned about the process. If the process is right, the product is guaranteed. The same holds true for integrity; it guarantees credibility...-John Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You........Luke8:15 “That on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.”

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You play like you practice; you play like you practice...-Basketball Coach Don Neff... When we fail to follow this principle, we fail to reach our personal potential. Keep Training, Keep Running...-John Maxwell, Leadership Promises........Heb12:1-2 “Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”