https://youtu.be/hKzZmAM2Bao The longer I'm outside of the States, the less American I feel. This journey into West Africa has been interesting to say the least. And from what it seems at the time of this writing, productive (unless I get screwed over which is always a possibility.) But, here are some reflections of my time …
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https://youtu.be/1toP7vpvF2g Don't Burn Your Bridges It is generally unwise to burn bridges. You may be mad at someone and have a real urge to give them a piece of your mind. But once you tell someone off, that's that/ Don't expect them to be coming back. That bridge is burned. So as a rule of …
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https://youtu.be/7fjgvNEKrDg How We Waste Time Time, time is something that has been emphasized time and time again as being something of great importance. Especially with the new year being a fresh slate, many a new resolution is drawn on determining what needs to be accomplished. 12 new months lie ahead, what is to be done …
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https://youtu.be/HXzZamWOdp8 The Time For Reflection It is the end of the year once again. And time to reflect on the little that has been done and the mountains yet to be reached. Well I started off the year in Tanzania and ended in Benin. Lot's of trials. Lot's of failures, some too personal for me …
https://youtu.be/SmgZJz1EEVo Shove At Your Limits... With Both Hands We all have limits, one way or another. There are only so many miles you can run, people you can call and problems you can solve. But the thing is, there have been limits, restrictions and rules placed upon us since birth. We were born not knowing …
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Look to his wife https://youtu.be/7-WjtEGqc9Y We Are the Sum of 5 People This one is a bit more of a sensitive topic, and I don't want to go on record saying anything too out of the ordinary, but to start out, this one is regarding how to read people. The fact of the matter is, …
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Luke 4:24 https://youtu.be/6fIA91RDKFc Jesus Preaches to His Hommies Now I rarely get into any Biblical discussion. The realm of the secular has always been far more interesting to me. But bear with me, many would say that the good news of Jesus Christ accounted in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (collectively known …
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https://youtu.be/8v4F9GjBM-M The Capital We All Know and Love The last and final piece of capital that we have yet to cover is that of financial capital. Out of the personal, emotional and social capitals we've already discussed, financial is arguably the most straight forward. Having said that, not wanting to divert things too far into …
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https://youtu.be/EeOwDl_H2WY Defining Social Capital It's not what you know it's who you know, or as we've put it in prior posts, it's not who you know it's how well you know them. Which brings us to our 3rd type of capital that we've been discussing, that of social capital. To recap, there are many different …
https://youtu.be/sMODehkmzXY Building Off Interreliance It's been said that no man is an island, which is true. We cannot do things all by ourselves. We need help. And if that is the case, wouldn't it be nice if we had a strong network of people around us that would support and encourage us in all that …
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