As you operate your business, you realize that changes are necessary. You have to adapt in order to survive in an inconsistent world. The thing becomes an issue when everyone wants these radical changes, and people either love them or hate them. The crucial way to survive this is to set up wins along the way.

People obsess over this model idea of sitting on the beach, cashing in on millions with your phone while your company pulls in millions a year. They see these dreamboat stories on Snapchat or Instagram and it’s suddenly the American Dream of this century. It’s also a great big lie.

Human beings are technically an animal species. Maybe that thought hasn’t occurred to some of you before, but we’re an animal. We may be vastly different that most animals you know, who either swim or walk on four legs, but for the most part we meet all the criteria that make animals animals.

As a businessman, looking into the future is an absolute must. The long term goal is something that weighs heavily in my mind at any point in time. With people relying on me for my trade and my business with employees and their families, I have no choice but to focus on how to keep my business afloat and sailing. Instant oatmeal businesses go as quickly as instant oatmeal.

Unpredictability and chance are two of mankind’s greatest weaknesses, because there’s very little we can do about it. Science says that we cry out of frustration over any other emotion. When you think about it, that’s pretty accurate.

Life has a habit of going its own way, not our way. When you turn on the news and see the constant and unrelenting flow of misery and sadness, it’s hard to look around and be grateful for the world as it is. Yet, at the end of the day we still have homes, families, friends, and so much else.

There may be times in your life when you feel that there is no lower that you could sink, that you’ve reached the bottom of the barrel, and I’m sure you can list several off the top of your head. Our lowest moments are something we never forget, but something that tends to escape our memory is how once we’ve fallen, we have to rise. There’s nothing to suggest life isn’t a struggle, we constantly encounter obstacles and setbacks on a weekly basis, but nothing can prepare us for the phone call or message that drops us to our knees.

The nature versus nurture debate is an ongoing battle that has been raging for centuries. Within this intellectual war, lies a cold hard truth that we’re going to touch on for just a brief moment, if you’ll bear with me. In thinking about the phrase, “a product of your surroundings” we typically wonder about how people are influenced and changed based on their environment.

Seasons refers to the change and transition from one stage to the next. For better or worse, this is something many of us look forward to because it signifies the chance to start again. I believe that seasons can refer to periods of time as short as a month, down to a week, and in some cases even a day. God gives us the gift of sleep with the hopes that when we wake up, we have the chance to capitalize on a new day.

The Golden Rule. Despite the amount of conditioning we receive as children to do unto others as we would want done to us, we have a natural drive to do unto others as is done to us. That instinctual lust for vengeance. We want an eye for an eye even when, in the long run, the process would be more costly than just letting go. The

It may seem like an impossible goal to accomplish, looking at it this way. Yet, in the face of such daunting odds, it becomes that much more incredible that we are able to set our goals and succeed. Our ability to reach new heights and obtain the finer fruit speaks volumes about our achievements. Look at yourself, are you where you want to be?

When someone tells you to “man up,” they’re telling you to be strong and do what’s necessary. It’s not always easy, and sometimes it requires sacrifice, but the burden of being born a man isn’t privilege, it’s the kind of strength that is impossible to put a value on.

Life is a constant struggle against outside elements and ourselves, how we respond to struggles, trauma, and disappointment. We are just as likely to succumb to ourselves as we are to outside pressure, jeopardizing our ability to cope with hardships as our beatdowns accumulate. When we lose sight of that hope, our will to fight fades. It’s important to remember that if God can give a rat the will to survive, He can give us the means to succeed. It’s a cliche to say that life isn’t fair, and we should expect as much.

When we hold on to our hurts, our wrongs, we build up a well of negativity and bitterness inside of us. This prevents us from doing what God needs us to do and what we need to do for ourselves. We get caught up in our own destructive cycles, putting our grievances before our purpose, losing sight of what’s important. From a psychological standpoint, forgiveness offers us a chance to accept change, and that’s something humans have the hardest time with.

We are all subject to the same seeds of worry that take root deep in our minds and hearts. At some point in our lives we have all had the pleasurable task of feeling the weight and discomfort of worry pushing down on us at our most vulnerable moments. We can best understand worry as a feeling of apprehension that arrests the entire conscious mind in waves of concern over anything and everything that can go wrong.

The barest definition of insanity is the doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. God has had to beat it into me that no matter how many times I try to do something my way, it’ll amount to nothing be it the first or the eighth time if it’s not something that lines up with His plan.

The act of withholding forgiveness suggests a few things. You might be holding on to whatever enmity or bitterness there because it’s all you have left of this person. You’re afraid to let go or move on because it’s admitting defeat. Maybe you’re so petty that all you have to give yourself meaning is the refusal to let go and forgive that person. It’s hard, I know, being a human isn’t easy.