“No beating yourself up. Thats not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a littletime to form new and better on...”

“The most important reason for your no is that you need your downtime so you wont behave like a jerk because youre depleted. And you dont want to battle an appetite spiked by the stress of overcommi...”

“When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking t...”

“It was after I first began to uplift my thoughts a bit that my cravings for junk food started to dissipate. I did not connect the two at that time. First, I simply noticed that I didnt need to slee...”

“Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel g...”

“Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to rejuv...”

“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”

“In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts”

“Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards...!”

“Planning and perseverance will bring your mission to fruition.”

“Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which o...”

“I get it! Something painful happens and that hate flares within and sticks around. Hate keeps the pain; forgiveness let's it go. Hate breeds poison, forgiveness breeds peace. When you chain yoursel...”

“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”

“The trip doesnt exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to hara...”

“We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8,9)”