I’m a lazy person. Maybe other people are the same, and don’t admit it. Still, even if I am in the high percentile of unmotivated bums, everybody experiences the opposing force of procrastination to some degree. Temptations may often immediately follow the tasks and promptings that come to us throughout the day. In reference to our callings, the Lord has warned that, “….it is not meet that [he] should command in all things…”, and that “he that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.” ¹ If we’re honest, it’s painfully apparent how often we’re slothful in our righteous actions— particularly when it comes to our callings. Our human tendency to shirk and wait around to be yelled at before we will magnify our callings can be overcome if we prepare to serve.
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It can be easy to wonder at those who seem, with supreme confidence, to breeze through life in full self-esteem. I have news for you: they are big-time fakers. Everyone faces discouragement and the confidence-draining feelings of disappointment and doubt. However, there are those who use disappointment as a launching-platform for progress. What separates them from those who always seem to lose in the battle against discouragement?
Continue reading Defeating Discouragement → “As options multiply, there may be a point at which the effort required to obtain enough information to be able to distinguish sensibly between alternatives outweighs the benefit to the consumer of the extra choice.” via The tyranny of choice: You choose | The Economist. Discipline creates liberty, not only due to increased access [...] 
Everyone has gone through difficult times of feeling distant from the Lord. I struggled in seeking the spirit over a period of years. I desired to feel that joy my peers expressed, but began to doubt if it were simply the result of some sort of self-hypnosis, or a “frenzied mind”¹―maybe they were making it all up. After all, many of them committed far more grievous sins than I! Though I watched movies I shouldn’t have, and though I listened to music that would make any mother blush, I surely didn’t participate in the kinds of sins they did. I was a pretty good person! So, why didn’t I feel like it?
Continue reading Giving The Lord His Fair Share →  Photo by Tony Case Let’s face it, most of us are not time-crunched executives who briskly move through downtown carrying a suitcase to very important business meetings. Yet most productivity advice (which is available in abundance on the webbernet) seems to be geared toward this small, professional segment of society. However, the tools are there for Mr. Everyman to grab a hold of and use for his betterment, it simply takes some creativity and a willingness to try.
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