by David Delp | Oct 19, 2017 | Joyful Living, Podcast Episodes, Spiritual Life
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We establish patterns in our lives that help us live consistently and naturally. Patterns are important in our personal life and in leadership. We must establish life patterns and we’ve got to be willing to evaluate those patterns when we need to change or go to the next level. In this episode we take a look at our spiritual patterns, passion patterns, relationship patterns, life development patterns, and our life practices patterns.
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by David Delp | Sep 28, 2017 | Joyful Living, Podcast Episodes
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Every dream is accompanied by obstacles, things that stand in the way, things that discourage you. Keeping ourselves encouraged while pursing a dream that is bigger than we are is a challenge, but applying these five principles to our thinking will give us lift in going after the fulfillment of our heart passions.
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by David Delp | Jun 7, 2017 | Joyful Living, Leadership, Spiritual Life, Uncategorized
Starting is the one immutable requisite to finishing. I sometimes make life so difficult, so complicated. I have a need to plot, to plan, to figure everything out, but nothing ever happens until I start.
I love to write. I used to sit and stare at the screen waiting for an epiphany. Needing inspiration, a direction, a divine deposit of intervention. I still do sometimes. Writing is about starting. When you start to write words they meander at first, but then they find a path. This might be a divine intervention, it might be a canvassing of the forest for a path, and we follow the path once it is found.
Life is like that. Sometimes I don’t know what to do. I am not sure where I’m going. I want a clear path, but I don’t see one. When I start with the thing I do know, the thing that is clear, or even when I just pick a direction and start walking, it is a supernatural phenomenon how I come across paths, good paths, fulfilling paths to follow. (more…)
by David Delp | Jun 1, 2017 | Leadership, Podcast Episodes
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These 6 traps will cause you to make and perpetuate bad decisions. Overcoming or avoiding these traps will keep you moving forward on the path to the summit of the God-given dreams inside you.
In this third episode of this three-part series on making good life and leadership decisions, David and Donna discuss 6 Traps Keeping You from Reaching Your Summit . This discussion draws from many years of ministry experience, some of the difficulties we’ve faced, and how those things are related to exercising wisdom and incorporating godly counsel in taking decisive actions and calculated and God-honoring risks.
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by David Delp | Apr 13, 2017 | Grief & Disappointment, Joyful Living, Podcast Episodes, Uncategorized
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Life doesn’t always turn out the way we hope it will, but life is a great adventure to be lived out and enjoyed. How do we step into our great adventure? This episode of the Calibrate Life podcast was recorded canal side in Venice, Italy as David and Donna talk about six life calibration decisions necessary for stepping into our great life adventure.
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