Starting your Focus {#Write31Days}

It can be difficult to start anything new, but when it comes to finding your purpose and focusing, you have to start.  So many times being scared about missing the mark keeps us from getting started, but God's Mercy is new every day.  If we miss the mark, we will quickly find out and will... Continue Reading →

Focus on Audience {#Write31Days}

Just as it important to know who you are, it is also important to know who your audience is as you begin to focus your life. I have a grandson that is just a ham. He does some of the cutest things when he is performing for one person. However as soon as someone asks... Continue Reading →

Pausing to Focus {#Write31Days}

I am really bad about filling my day up with busy working and getting nothing accomplished. I often have to pause to reflect on why I am doing what I am doing. Pause to prioritize what I should be doing. There are times I have to pause five or six times in the course of... Continue Reading →

Focus on Praise {#Write31Days}

In our society it is so easy to get focused on the negative around us, but if you want to be successful, turn that focus into praise.   It takes about 40 positives to overcome one negative. And research shows that for every 20 interactions 17 of them are generally negative. So praise the good,... Continue Reading →

Uncomfortable Focus {#Write31Days}

So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit. Ezekiel 33:31 HCSB These words captured my attention, yet taunted me with the deep truth that is found in them.  So... Continue Reading →

Hope Focused {#Write31Days}

A friend and I were recently talking about when people lose hope and become depressed and even suicidal.  As a social worker, one of my professors taught me that one of my roles is to come alongside people and bring them hope when they feel hopeless.  As a Christian, I am called to do the... Continue Reading →

Focus on Self-Acceptance {#Write31Days}

Today's #FMF word is belong.  If I belong to God and want to focus on His will for my life his opinion is the one that I have to seek.  If my focus becomes belonging to another group, seeking their approval, I will not likely complete what He has designed me for because there will... Continue Reading →

What’s your more?

“For it is just like a man going on a journey. He called his own slaves and turned over his possessions to them. To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one — to each according to his own ability. Then he went on a journey. Immediately the man who had... Continue Reading →

Focus on What I Believe {#Write31Days}

Another thing that keeps me from truly focusing on the things that I know I am called by God to do is what I believe.  What I believe can be more powerful that what others believe about me.  What I believe can be more powerful than what God says about me because I can not... Continue Reading →

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