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“If there’s muck in the water of your life, you probably had a hand in hauling it there. What that means is that you also have the ability to haul it out.”

Life Choices Water Decisions Consequences Repercussions Haul Muck

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can pick up a cat by its tail because you assume that the part of the cat that can do you damage is on the other end. But it’s amazing how fast the other end can find its way to this end.”

Choices Ignorance Pride Cat Stupidity Selfish Foolish Arrogant Consequences Tail

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In a deteriorating culture it is amazing to me that we will try all sorts of soil, apply water as generously as we possibly can. and tediously dote over every seedling. Yet we adamantly refuse to accept the fact that if the seeds are bad, the rest won’t matter.”

Choices Politics Water Society Seeds Soil Agendas Platforms Deteriorating

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If where you’re going isn’t better than where you’re at, then maybe you ought to ask why you’re living your life going backwards.”

Life Wisdom Choices Journey Foolish Decisions Backwards Better Improve

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At the close of this day, where I spent the day will become the unalterable stuff of my history. Therefore, since such a record is being kept, I would be wise to determine how I want to begin each day so that I will not be dismayed on my last day.”

Life Choices History Day Wasted Wasteful Squandered

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest riches in life are not obtained by what we chase but by what we choose not to chase, for it is the exercise of wisdom that makes one truly rich.”

Wisdom Choices Thoughtful Self Control Discernment Discretion Battles Choosing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t think for a moment that the decisions that you make today are not payed forward into a future that you will live tomorrow.”

Wisdom Past Choices Future Present Consequences Repercussions Payback Forward Thinking

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To claim that every staircase goes up means that we’re probably living out our lives in the basement of denial.”

Wisdom Choices Ignorance Fool Stupidity Denial Justification Foolishness Rationalization

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just because ‘these shoes were made for walking’ doesn’t mean that we should use them on any old road.”

Life Wisdom Choices Wise Walking Thoughtful Mindful Road Discerning

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’m not flourishing, I might want to check out the soil.”

Faith Choices Belief Resources Soil Nourishment Grow Flourishing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Just because we choose to do nothing doesn’t mean that nothing will happen because we did nothing.”

Wisdom Choices Fool Decisions Coward Consequences Nothing Choosing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To think that you don’t have a choice is actually a choice that’s an attempt to relieve you of the guilt of not making a choice.”

Wisdom Choices Guilt Decisions Coward Choosing Options Deciding

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes answering the question of where we’re at in life is best approached by asking where we’re not, because there’s a good chance that that’s where we had original intended to be.”

Choices Wise Dreams Achievement Goals Foolish Destination Aspirations

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We need to pay attention to our decisions, for they will determine the losses that we will experience as well as the losses that we will avoid.”

Wisdom Choices Attention Thought Decisions Losses

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What’s growing around you is what you planted. Therefore, if you don’t like the plants, change the seeds.”

Choices Seeds Decisions Outcomes Consequences Plants Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The opinion that is void of fact is given birth at the hands of the person void of thought.”

Choices Wise Point Of View Decisions Thoughtful Fact Opinions Perspectives

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes a journey forced is a journey wrecked.”

Choices Journey Calling Thoughtful Impatient Premature Proactive Impulsive Reactive Forced

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“In the end, I walked myself here. And if ‘here’ is not the place that I wanted to be, blaming others for walking me here won’t do anything to walk me out of here.”

Choices Blame Decisions Outcomes Accountability Consequences Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We weave the majority of our problems on the loom of our decisions.”

Choices Decisions Problems Consequences Create Choose Weave Loom

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Rescue is made possible by someone creating the need to be rescued. And while we are privileged to be involved in the occasional rescue, it seems that we’re far more involved in creating the need for it.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Rescue Consequences Discernment Save Salvage

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It may not be the problem that's the problem. Rather, the problem might be the tool that I'm using to try and solve the problem.”

Wisdom Choices Solutions Tools Problems Difficulties Strategies Solving

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Somehow I said “yes” to whatever put me here and “no” to whatever did not. And if I don’t like where I’m at, maybe I should start trading out one answer for the other.”

Wisdom Choices Responsibility Decisions Accountability No Thoughtfulness Yes

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s only one person walking in my shoes, and that’s me. And to state that someone else somehow slipped into them and therefore walked me out to this horrible place is to forget that, shoes or not, I still can choose where to walk.”

Choices Responsibility Responsible Shoes Accountability Ownership

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“I might want to start paying real close attention to today because it will shape the yesterday that I will be thinking about tomorrow.”

Today Past Choices Tomorrow Future Yesterday Consequences

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I must not reflect on what I’m doing. Rather, I must do one of the most difficult things imaginable and reflect on ‘why’ I’m doing it.”

Purpose Choices Agendas Actions Intentions Reflect Consider Motives

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Wisdom’ and ‘greed’ sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as ‘life’ and ‘death.’ And the person who is daring enough to be honest with themselves knows exactly which end they share.”

Life Wisdom Death Choices Opposites Greed Extremes Consequences Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In an alarming turning of the proverbial tables, we repeatedly tell ourselves that what we ‘want’ is in fact what we ‘need.’ And if we ever dare push back our greed sufficiently so that we can catch even the slightest glimpse of the carnage wrought of ‘wants’ unleashed, pursuing our ‘needs’ will quite quickly end up being all that we ‘want.”

Needs Choices Survival Greed Priorities Selfishness Consequences Wants Carnage

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To sit down at the end of each day and read what we wrote across the page of this day is probably going to make us think real, real hard about what we should write tomorrow.”

Life Today Choices History Tomorrow Legacy Day Consequences Write Page

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.”

Life God Christian Choices Jesus Calling Disaster Direction Paths Cliff

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we chase the things that ‘tickle our ears,’ we’ll probably end up finding out that they’re going to ‘torture our lives.”

Choices Greed Foolish Superficial Desires Consequences Self Centered Wants Ego Centric Lusts

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I look way back to the beginning of ‘whatever this is’ that I’m stuck in the middle of, I suddenly realize that ‘whatever this is’ got started by ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing. And I can be utterly confident in the fact that ‘whatever it is’ that I was doing, it wasn’t thinking.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Realization Thoughtful Consequences Prudent Repercussions Discerning Fool Foolish

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We must be aware that momentum born of old habits and destructive behaviors might be momentum, but it’s momentum slammed into reverse.”

Choices Progress Achieve Reverse Consequences Habits Momentum Forward Behaviors Advance

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As the old saying goes, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” The problem is that too often we assume that we’ve got the right cat, and then we assume that the only solution is to skin it. And once everything mercifully comes to a close, assuming that we’ve made a terrible mess of things is the only assumption that’s not an assumption.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Fool Solutions Cat Foolish Problems Discernment Assumptions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am not transforming those around me it is because I have chosen not to transform that which is within me.”

Choices Change Determination Transformation Personal Growth Personal Development Laziness Transform

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The emptiness in our lives is due to the ‘absence of all the right things,’ and the ‘presence of all the wrong things.’ And if there’s some sort of silver-lining to be found in feeling empty, it’s that we’ve been successful at doing both of the above.”

Wisdom Choices Empty Decisions Emptiness Wrong Things Life Choices Right Things

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The pen of history never runs out of ink and it’s fresh out of erasers. So…write carefully.”

Past Choices History Future Ink Pen Eraser

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Foolish Priorities Godly Godless

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the seat of our pants are worn thin, it’s probably because we’ve been flying by the seat of them far too long.”

Wisdom Choices Pants Impulsive Discreet Seat Seat Of Our Pants

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed are the handcuffs and gratitude is the key. Sadly, sometimes we prefer wearing the cuffs to finding the keys.”

Choices Freedom Keys Gratitude Thanksgiving Consequences Thankful Handcuffs

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Existence Jesus Christ Holes Decisions Discernment Shovels

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I’d just quit making ropes I’d no longer be at the end of one.”

Choices Impossible Expectations Rope Possible Constraints Limitations Quit

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The script of tomorrow is being written by the pen of today. And we would be wise to remember that the pen of today cannot erase anything written by the pen of yesterday.”

Life Writing Today Choices History Yesterday Legacy Pen

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I have both paper and pencil. And as I write out the script of my life, I’m not worried about how I hold the paper, but I am worried about how I hold the pen.”

Past Choices Future Paper Decisions Consequences Script Pen

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The minute that stands in front of me has plenty of room within it to birth a new start. And if that is so, the next sixty seconds could change everything.”

Choices Change Decisions Opportunities Possibilities Alter Minute

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Ignorance Foolish Abandonment Omnipotence

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”

Important God Wisdom Choices Wise Foolish Priorities Consequences Unimportant Finger

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got all of our fingers wrapped around a bunch of other things that are not important.”

Wisdom Choices Wise Stupid Importance Fingers Foolish Priorities Consequences Assessment

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Without God, my internal compass is something more akin to a windmill in a hurricane.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Prayer Guidance Discernment Direction Hurricane

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?”

Choices Anger Responsible Blame Justification Consequences Repercussions Rationalization

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a long hard look out of the rearview mirror before I drop it into ‘drive’.”

Life Wisdom Past Choices Future Responsible Thoughtful Consequences Repercussions

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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