We hide. We’re good at it. One of our best tricks is hiding from ourselves the ways in which we hide.

Once you are on to that game, however, it’s pretty easy to uncover. Just ask yourself, “In what ways and my hiding?”

The problem with goals is not achieving them.

What if you could change that? What if you could achieve more of the goals you set, and at the same time expand your ability to achieve tougher ones in the future?

Here’s the secret: set goals at every level.

One of the worst mistakes we can make as entrepreneurs is allowing our commitment to our business to undermine our commitment to our family.

As entrepreneurs we do things that others aren’t necessarily willing to do in order to enjoy a life that others can’t – we work long hours, long past the “normal” business hours that employees work, we can’t remember the last time we had more than six hours of sleep in a night and our families plot a rescue mission to get us out of the office at a decent time for special occasions.

The great Os Hillman has a website, and a book, called Today God Is First (TGIF)

This is a reframing of the old cliche, TGIF, which for most of the world means “thank God it’s Friday”.

The point Os is trying to make, I believe, is that we need a shift in the way we think about work and our life.

If your perspective on life is: you hate what you do 40-60 hours per week, and you are only thanking God when Friday comes around, so you can step out of that hellish workplace that you are forced to occupy…

What does it mean to be wealthy?

Does it mean to have vast amounts of material goods? Homes, cars, money?

Does it mean to be recognized, lauded, praised?

Does being wealthy mean you have great power over others, that you are able to bend them to your will?

Wealth is none of these things. These things may (or may not) be external indicators, or symptoms, of wealth. But they are not wealth itself.

Ask anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one what wealth is.

Ask anyone who struggles with a degenerative disease or terminal illness what wealth is.

They can tell you.

Wealth has nothing to do with external circumstances, and has everything to do with internal reality.

If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you have never tested your definition of wealth.

One day you will.

Whether you want to or not.

While there is nothing inherently wrong with houses, cars, or money, they are not wealth itself. All these things deteriorate, and pass away.

Better to store up the wealth that does not pass away. That wealth is found in a knowledge of who you are, and why you are here.

When you have the true wealth, you wake up wealthy no matter what circumstances you find yourself facing.

Something worth thinking about today.

Worry kills you slowly. It makes you sick.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

~Martin Luther

We know this. But how do we stop worrying so much?

If you would like to spend less of your time worrying, and more of it accomplishing, here are 7 things you can most definitely cross off your “worry list”.

1. Worry about things you can’t control.
2. Worry about things you can control (since you control them, what is there to worry about?)
3. Worry about what other people think of you (see number 1).
4. Worry about the past (nothing you can do to change it).
5. Worry about the future (see number 2).
6. Worry about the unknown (um…  since you can’t know it… what are you worrying about?).
7. Worry about how you might respond to any challenge (you’ll only know when you face it).

There. Burden lightened.

By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
- Hebrews 11:11

Receiving God’s blessings for your life by having faith sometimes feels like a tricky business.

Sometimes we feel that if we doubt-even for a second-that we will have cheated ourselves out of our blessings.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

When we accept God’s gift of abundant grace, and of righteousness through Jesus Christ, He no longer sees our sins and shortcomings (even our lack of faith).

In fact, God promises that He will “remember our sins no more”.

This isn’t even restricted to the New Covenant-take Sarah for example. The writer of Hebrews says that Sarah received strength to conceive a child, even in her old age, because of her faith. But if you go back and read the story in the Old Testament, you’ll notice something very interesting. Sarah did not instantly have great faith that God would deliver on His promise-she actually laughed when God said she would have a child. Then, when asked why she had laughed, she lied and said she had not!

Yet the Bible clearly says that it was by faith that Sarah conceived. How can this be? It’s because when God forgives, He forgives completely, and He sees the good that He has placed within us.

Don’t worry that you have somehow disqualified yourself from God’s blessings. It’s impossible for you to do that; God is the one who qualified you, and He promised it was done with complete and everlasting perfection.

Have faith, pray that the Lord will grace you with more, and put yourself in a position to receive the blessings God is already sending your way!

This is one of my favorite interviews in a long time. John Garfield is not just an author, he’s leading a movement. John’s book and website have the same title: Releasing Kings.

I’ve had the privilege of getting to know John over these last few weeks, and he really lives the stuff he teaches and writes about – one of the most important qualities for any teacher! What is this movement about? As John expresses it: “the passion that starts when God connects your job, business, ministry, and life purpose into one package. Entrepreneurs (like you) in your workplace or your home business bring a creative health to cash flow, co-workers and customers.”

Have a listen and let us know what you think (in the comments section below, on your own blog, or via Social Media!)…