Avoid Wasting Over $30,000 & Two Years of Your Life

Know anyone who is a high school or college age student  who needs help finding their calling in life?  I've worked with over a hundred young people to help them determine their vocational calling, select a college major, and develop a process for picking the best college for them.  The student will achieve the following results:

1. Identify the career that will not only be professionally rewarding, but most personally fulfilling.

2. Develop a greater sense of life purpose.

3. Enhance their decision making abilities.

4. Significantly improve their self-esteem.

5. Turbo-charge their interest in getting good grades in school or college.

Now is the very best time to start this program as students have the summer to devote time to this incredibly life changing program!

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Curtis Songer

Certified Professional Career Coach

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The Problem With Common Sense

People tend to order their lives according to “conventional wisdom,” a generally accepted set of principles that may include centuries-old folk sayings or that may have arisen from contemporary experience. These sayings and beliefs have become so ingrained in the public mind that they are often referred to as “common sense.”

In both your business and your personal life, following conventional wisdom is usually the “safe” approach. But, the people who make a remarkable difference in the world are typically those who examine conventional wisdom with a critical eye, using “not-so-common sense.”

Most people don’t question conventional wisdom. It’s just “the way things are.” Others see it as a handy starting place for examining their own values. Using not-so-common sense, they often discover wisdom that is far from conventional.

Somewhere along the way, someone questioned conventional wisdom, examined it from all sides, developed new principles, and produced human progress.

Common sense told the medieval world that the Earth was the center of the universe and the sun revolved around it. Copernicus followed not-so-common sense to a new understanding of the universe and our place in it.

I have lived long enough to acknowledge the value of wisdom based on generations of experience. I have also lived long enough to know that those who follow conventional wisdom uncritically may end up in a rut that leads nowhere.

So when I hear someone quote an old saying that suggests it’s the wisdom of the ages, I start looking for footnotes and often find them with the nuggets of not-so-common sense they contain. That sort of skeptical examination has served me well, and I recommend it to those who want to enjoy, discover, and achieve fulfillment in their lives.

The conventional explorer, in crossing a stream, may look at the stones rising from the water as islands of stability in the swirling current. And that they may be. But the creative explorer will stop and turn the stones over to determine whether priceless gems might lie beneath or what veins of gold might be incorporated in their mass.

Ancient adages are like those rocks in the stream, assuring the crosser that it’s safe to step here. Those old saws serve a useful purpose. But unless we’re willing to turn them over and look at the other side, we may never know what nuggets of wisdom, what omens of triumph, what not-so-common principles lie underfoot.

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Leaders aren't Born - They're Made

Leaders aren't born, they're made.  And like anything else, they are made through hard work.  That's the price you'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any other goal...   www.truthatlife.com

Leaders Help People Believe in Themselves

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.  If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish...   www.truthatlife.com

The American Dream

The American Dream is to be able to follow your own personal calling.  To be able to do what you want to do is the ultimate freedom...   www.truthatlife.com

Leaders Develop People

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership...   www.truthatlife.com

Quote of the Day

Leaders aren’t born, they are made. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal which is worthwhile... www.truthatlife.com

Today's Thought

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk...   www.truthatlife.com

Be Positively Thankful at Thanksgiving (and year-round!)

Are you tired of all the negativity in the world around you? A great leader knows that people who are different from himself will not naturally be attracted to him. People normally draw people to themselves who are like themselves. Maybe you’ve started thinking about the people you have attracted in the past (or present). You might say to yourself, “I can name twenty things that make these people different from me.” Of course you can. But if you think about it carefully, you'll begin to realize, that the people who are drawn to you have more similarities than differences, especially in a few key areas. One of those key areas is attitude. Rarely are positive and negative people attracted to one another. This is one instance where opposites do not attract. If you think the people around you are negative, then you had better check your own attitude. As Zig Ziglar used to commonly say, “Perhaps it’s time for a check-up from the neck up.” On the contrary, people who view life as a series of opportunities and exciting challenges don’t want to hear others talk about how bad things are all the time. To attract positive, up-beat, cheerful people, you must be a positive person. So for Thanksgiving, begin expressing your thankfulness for all the many blessings in your life. Show your gratitude. Focus on the positive. Express praise and affirmation to those around you. You'll be surprised how positive your world will become. Curtis Songer is a career, life, & leadership coach specializing in permanent, life changing transformation. For more information, email him at curtis.songer@truthatlife.com or visit his website at http://www.truthatlife.com/

Struggling With Habitual Sin?

What happens when WE stumble and fall as Christians? Do we give up? Do we continue to fall? Do we beat ourselves up for it? Do we continue to roll in the mud of sin and/or self-pity hoping that we will somehow get cleaner? Or do we just continue to fight in futility hoping we will overcome what we have never overcome? Here are some key tips to remember when you are struggling with a particularly difficult (and possibly repetitive) sin: 1. No one is beyond restoration. For those who put their faith in Christ, "there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Why is it that some Christians don't live this way, but continue to beat themselves up for they've done? Because they don't believe they are priceless and precious. But they are - in God's eyes. Just like priceless works of art are never thrown away, but constantly restored by experts, so we are also far more valuable than any piece of art. God will never cease to restore us. Jesus came to redeem and restore us and make us new everyday. He is in the business of restoration. 2. Restoration begins with our recognition of our weakness. Many of us do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. Yet we are all pre-disposed to some weakness, some temptation that Satan will use against us. Until we admit it, and ask for help, we will fail over and over again. We need help - God's help and the help of other godly people. God's power is made perfect in our weakness. His restoration is activated in our admission of brokenness and in our admission of helplessness to overcome the habitual sin. We cannot overcome by fighting with greater and greater effort. We only overcome by surrendering it to God. Like a piece of grippy rubber in our hand turns us into a lid-popping beast, when we admit our weakness and ask God for help and surrender the battle to Him, we become a weakness-overcoming beast. 3. Don't let God's restoration project be in vain. Imagine how a craftsman would feel if he came into a house that he had totally renewed only a year earlier and the family had absolutely trashed it! That's how God feels if we don't take care of the amazing work He has done in our life. To honor Him, we need to attend carefully to the amazing restoration He has already made in our life, beginning with His restoration of our life on the day of our salvation. Don't abuse the gift of grace that God has given you. You should desire to live righteously for Him! Restoration is a process that begins on the day of your salvation and continues everyday of your life. Don't let a single day go by that you either abuse, or don't take advantage of the grace-filled restoration He offers you! Curtis Songer is a career, life, & leadership coach specializing in permanent, life changing transformation. For more information, email him at curtis.songer@truthatlife.com or visit his website at http://www.truthatlife.com/