Listen to the #GrowingHOPE podcast. Being the best you provides the best path to being attractive. Your uniqueness means you will never rise (or fall) to the level of others because your design does not meet the requirements of others. The best (and only path) to living your attractive life is to be the best […]

Be considerate to others and with others if you want to sow the seeds for growing relationships. I does not come before you – or it shouldn’t. When we focus on others and being relentlessly helpful to them and for them then we create our own success in the process. Listen to the #GrowingHOPE podcast. […]

Listen to the #GrowingHOPE podcast. Growing up relationships requires an honest spirit and an honest focus – with others and with self. If you want to build relationships for your journey then you have to be invested in honesty. Writing one of my novels, I had the main character interacting with another character. Throughout the […]

Listen to the #GrowingHOPE podcast. Growing up relationships starts with being willing to be open. A life closed up in a box will never be able to make new connections. All relationships begin with those connections. If you want to build more relationships for your life then begin by finding ways to be open. Growing […]

Listen to the #GrowingHOPE broadcast. You start growing relationships when you make the choice to be authentically you. When you put on masks or try to change your nature to fit the moment then you begin to push away the very relationships that would give you the focus and strength to live out your unique […]

Utilizing and understanding the resources at our disposal allows us to craft a solid agenda for the fruitful life. The calling issued to you and me involved living and being fruitful. Jesus told us to have life and to have it abundantly (John 10:10) but he also warned the enemy would be here to steal, […]

We are called to live and thrive . . . not merely survive. If you want to live out the fruitful life then you will have to take purposeful steps to get there. It all begins with knowing where you’re going. The only way you can have all that you need is to know what […]

Listen to the #GrowingHOPE broadcast Keeping on keeping on can be difficult. Just the other day, my father-in-law – thinking he was complimenting me – told my husband that I was smart enough to get a good paying job. I am a writer. He has read my work. I have a job. Others don’t know […]

Listen to the #GrowingHOPE broadcast. Investing in Relationships Reaching out and investing in others takes up precious resources. If we have been hurt, then we want to reach out even less – in part to avoid the repeat of the pain. Everything worth doing and worth being has a foundation in relationships. If you want […]

Listen to the #GrowingHOPE broadcast. Ponder the Quote of the Day. The Joy of the Lord is My Strength The world shouts despair, suffering, and pain . . . and that’s on a good day. If you sit and watch the news or turn on a digital device, tragedy abounds. Inside your own bubble, the […]