https://youtu.be/b9KIa7remPg Don't Give It Away For Free I'm going to venture off into a realm that I don't go into quite often. Now it's been said that men do not respect women that sleep with them easily. Don't want to get too deep into this, but basically it's a matter of people not valuing what …
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https://youtu.be/xPUBmoZrSVQ Why Guard One and Not the Other? Whenever someone trespasses on our territory, we balk at the notion of this intrusion. Whenever someone steals from us, we take up arms and defend what we believe to be rightfully ours. But when someone becomes disrespectful with our time, we become so accommodating with such individuals. …
https://youtu.be/0pozyS0sOxw Opening Doors It's been said that life is a series of choices. Cause and effect, whatever choices we decide to make, any doors we decide to open, ultimately lends itself to having certain options available to us, while closing others. Therefore, where we are now, whatever station of life that might happen to be, …
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https://youtu.be/sKPy4_l40Js Where Did The Dreams Go? I want to be a firefighter! I want to be a rock star! I want to e a power ranger! Whatever happened to these childhood dreams? During our formative years, we were young and filled with emotions. Which is why it is children normally that cry and throw tantrums. …
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For odds aren't always in your favor... https://youtu.be/c7Ghte-LtRU For When the World Is Against You The military, a stranger in a foreign land, anywhere where you are the odd man out. What do they all have in common? Well in all three instances, you are either in or being prepared to enter a hostile environment. …
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https://youtu.be/HVSxQXS0VWg Don't Count On People's Word Words are cheap. People lie and say what they need to say to get what they want. And if it is not to the benefit of the other party to fulfill their word, well then it is better to assume they won't do it. Because your average person is …
Continue reading Selling Water: On Urgency and Importance Kingston’s Journey #111
https://youtu.be/fcWIHvCM-H0 The Road To Rome Is Paved By A Thousand Steps It's been said that Rome wasn't built in a day. Of course we all know now the greatness of Rome even thousands of years later. We see the end product, the pinnacle of western civilization in it's hey day, unmatched by any other. But …
Continue reading “Being Persistently Patient” Kingston’s Journey #110
https://youtu.be/B9AxG3E6kwI No One Has A Clear Path Ahead We operate in a fog of war, a world of imperfect information. This lack of accurate information naturally leads to us making decisions that seemed good at the moment, but after the fact we see it as folly. In other words we look to the choices made …
Continue reading “On Unanswered Prayers” Kingston’s Journey #109
https://youtu.be/jzYEE3XFl5Q Life Asks Hard Questions What do you have to lose? Everything. And nothing. Depending on how you frame the question. Let's first start with the later. A way you can set up a response to the before mentioned question is by asking yourself: What do you have to lose?What do you have to gain? …
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https://youtu.be/ruvT6mi51iA When They Have A Checkered History Oftentimes, people will be very unwilling to disclose information about themselves, especially when they fear judgement by those around them. In order to avoid damaging a relationship, such individuals will openly lie about themselves to get what they want, which in this case is a smooth relationship and …
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