145 – Putting the Margin Back into Our Lives

by | Jan 24, 2020 | Joyful Living, Leadership, Podcast Episodes

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Margin is the blank spaces on a document that defines its borders and makes it readable and functional. We need margin in our lives. It is the spaces, the blanks, that make everything else work. REST, health, well-being, effectiveness and many other things are elusive if we don’t mind the blank spaces. In this episode of the Calibrate Life Podcast we talk about putting the margin back in.

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I’ve made a re-commitment to learn to REST on new levels in 2020. In last week’s podcast we talked about 2020 being the year of REST, and the acrostic we gave was:

  • R for REFRESH renew emotional
  • E for ENERGIZE renew the physical
  • S for SABBATH (as a verb) renew the spiritual
  • T for THINK renew the intellectual

Today we are going to hit the topic of MARGIN. and for our Africa House leaders this is a self-leadership and a personal health capacity. 

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132 – Persistence is the Prerequisite to Victory

by | Aug 1, 2019 | Leadership, Podcast Episodes

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Persistence is necessary to the fulfillment of any mission. Talent, genius, education, and even spirituality is not enough in and of itself to be successful in your mission, the prize goes to the persistent. In this episode we talk about the necessity and the power of persistence. 

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Persistence is the Prerequisite to Victory

Persistence is firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition (dictionary).

It occurred to me earlier this week that one thing is necessary to accomplish the mission before us… persistence. Some days I feel like it, most days I do not feel like it. Hard things are called hard things for a reason: They are hard to do. 

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